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Thomas De Schampheleire
tests: remove sleep hack to expire sql_cache_short

A number of tests sleep for 1.5 or 2 seconds to let the beaker cache
'sql_cache_short' expire. This cache is for example used for IP permissions;
tests changing such permissions need to make sure they take effect before
proceeding, especially when exiting from the test.

A much faster method is to effectively invalidating the caches.
Because it is difficult and fragile to only invalidate the relevant cache --
difficult to know exactly which cache needs to be invalidated, fragile
because the string indicating the cache line is not very nice and might
change in the future (in the case of IP permissions for the default user,
the cache is referred to with something like
"get_user_ips_default_Mapper|UserIpMap|users". This string changes when the
permissions are for a different user.

Clearing all caches shouldn't be a problem in a test context.
.. _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.