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Søren Løvborg
cleanup: replace redirect with WebOb exceptions

All redirect does is to log "Generating 302 redirect" with logging the actual
location and raise a WebOb HTTPFound exception, and the logging is redundant,
as WebOb exceptions and their status codes are already logged.

Instead, just raise the exception directly, which is both explicit and simpler
(and finally, gets rid of "return redirect" which never really returns).
.. _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.