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js: use ajax requests for select2 autocomplete

When you have a big user base, with thousends of users, always using the whole
dataset makes the UI slow.

This will replace kallithea/model/repo.py get_users_js and get_user_groups_js
which were used to inline the full list of users and groups in the document.
Instead, it will expose a json service for doing the completion.

When using the autocomplete, there might be multiple ajax requests, but tests
with a userbase > 9000 showed no problems.
And keep in mind, that although we now make multiple requests (one for every
character) that
- the autocomplete is not used that often
- the requests are quite cheap
- most importanly, we no longer need to calculate the user list/group list if
the user doesn't use the autocomplete

Users and groups are still passed as parameters to the javascript functions -
they will be removed later.
.. _locking:

==================
Repository locking
==================

Kallithea has a *repository locking* feature, disabled by default. When
enabled, every initial clone and every pull gives users (with write permission)
the exclusive right to do a push.

When repository locking is enabled, repositories get a ``locked`` flag.
The hg/git commands ``hg/git clone``, ``hg/git pull``,
and ``hg/git push`` influence this state:

- A ``clone`` or ``pull`` action locks the target repository
  if the user has write/admin permissions on this repository.

- Kallithea will remember the user who locked the repository so only this
  specific user can unlock the repo by performing a ``push``
  command.

- Every other command on a locked repository from this user and every command
  from any other user will result in an HTTP return code 423 (Locked).
  Additionally, the HTTP error will mention the user that locked the repository
  (e.g., “repository <repo> locked by user <user>”).

Each repository can be manually unlocked by an administrator from the
repository settings menu.