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Thomas De Schampheleire
TurboGears2 migration: update ini files for error email settings

Error emails are now handled by backlash, which is configured through
TurboGears2's ErrorReporter. ErrorReporter expects different configuration
key names than Pylons did, moreover under a new 'trace_errors' namespace.

Since some of the email-related settings are shared between application and
error emails, we cannot just rename the existing settings (it would be very
odd to have application settings under a 'trace_errors' namespace).
Requiring the user to duplicate its settings is also undesirable.

Instead, use 'get' to populate the trace_errors namespace based on the
existing settings we already had. Unfortunately, 'get' expects the setting
to be actually present, so we need to provide an out-of-the-box value for
the error-related email settings or there will be an error at startup. We
use empty values because there is no realistic default value we can provide.
.. _vcs_support:

===============================
Version control systems support
===============================

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.

.. code-block:: python

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


Git support
-----------


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 =


Mercurial support
-----------------


Working with Mercurial subrepositories
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This section explains how to use Mercurial subrepositories_ in Kallithea.

Example usage::

    ## init a simple repo
    hg init mainrepo
    cd mainrepo
    echo "file" > file
    hg add file
    hg ci --message "initial file"

    # clone subrepo we want to add from Kallithea
    hg clone http://kallithea.local/subrepo

    ## specify URL to existing repo in Kallithea as subrepository path
    echo "subrepo = http://kallithea.local/subrepo" > .hgsub
    hg add .hgsub
    hg ci --message "added remote subrepo"

In the file list of a clone of ``mainrepo`` you will see a connected
subrepository at the revision it was cloned with. Clicking on the
subrepository link sends you to the proper repository in Kallithea.

Cloning ``mainrepo`` will also clone the attached subrepository.

Next we can edit the subrepository data, and push back to Kallithea. This will
update both repositories.


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