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db: introduce constraint ensuring no duplicate (reviewer, pullrequest) combinations

A reviewer should only be added once to a review.

Previously, this was not ensured by the database itself, although that the
controller would try to not add duplicate reviewers. But there was no hard
guarantee: e.g. simultaneous adding of the same reviewer to the same review
by a review owner and admin, a framework bug that sends the same request
twice, ... could still trigger duplicate addition. Additionally, code
changes (e.g. a new API) could introduce bugs at the controller level.

Existing production databases were found to contain such duplicate entries.
Nevertheless, as the code displaying reviewers in a pull request filtered
out duplicates, this never showed in the UI, and never was a 'real' problem.

Add a UniqueConstraint in the database to prevent such entries, with a
database migration step that will first find and remove existing duplicates.
.. _vcs_setup:

=============================
Version control systems setup
=============================

Kallithea supports Git and Mercurial repositories out-of-the-box.
For Git, you do need the ``git`` command line client installed on the server.

You can always disable Git or Mercurial support by editing the
file ``kallithea/__init__.py`` and commenting out the backend. For example, to
disable Git but keep Mercurial enabled:

.. code-block:: python

   BACKENDS = {
       'hg': 'Mercurial repository',
       #'git': 'Git repository',
   }


Git-specific setup
------------------


Web server with chunked encoding
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Large Git pushes require an HTTP server with support for
chunked encoding for POST. The Python web servers waitress_ and
gunicorn_ (Linux only) can be used. By default, Kallithea uses
waitress_ for `gearbox serve` instead of the built-in `paste` WSGI
server.

The web server used by gearbox is controlled in the .ini file::

    use = egg:waitress#main

or::

    use = egg:gunicorn#main

Also make sure to comment out the following options::

    threadpool_workers =
    threadpool_max_requests =
    use_threadpool =

Increasing Git HTTP POST buffer size
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If Git pushes fail with HTTP error code 411 (Length Required), you may need to
increase the Git HTTP POST buffer. Run the following command as the user that
runs Kallithea to set a global Git variable to this effect::

    git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000


.. _waitress: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/waitress
.. _gunicorn: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gunicorn
.. _subrepositories: http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/subrepositories/