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Mads Kiilerich
utils: when building a Mercurial ui object with configuration, don't use 'None' for NULL values

If Ui had an entry with
ui_section='extensions', ui_key='largefiles', ui_value=NULL
it would be passed to Mercurial as if the .ini file had
[extensions]
largefiles = None
and it would fail to load the largefiles extension because it couldn't find
'./None/'.

Note: get_current_revision might currently mask this problem. It will not get
the Ui from the database and will thus read a normal .ini file from the system
and (if configured) read the largefiles extension from the default location.
That will make the largefiles extension available for later largefiles imports
even if they specify the bogus path.

As f8a714c2c5a1 noted in a FIXME: ui_value should perhaps not be nullable.

For now, just handle NULL in extension configuration.
.. _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.