full_path = os.path.join(safe_str(base_path), safe_str(repo_name))

    try:

        scm_ = get_scm(full_path)

        if scm:

            return scm_[0] == scm

        return True

    except VCSError:

        return False

def is_valid_repo_group(repo_group_name, base_path, skip_path_check=False):

    """

    Returns True if given path is a repository group False otherwise

    :param repo_name:

    :param base_path:

    """

    full_path = os.path.join(safe_str(base_path), safe_str(repo_group_name))

    # check if it's not a repo

    if is_valid_repo(repo_group_name, base_path):

        return False

    try:

        # we need to check bare git repos at higher level

        # since we might match branches/hooks/info/objects or possible

        # other things inside bare git repo

        get_scm(os.path.dirname(full_path))

        return False

    except VCSError:

        pass

    # check if it's a valid path

    if skip_path_check or os.path.isdir(full_path):

        return True

    return False

def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no please!'):

    while True:

        ok = raw_input(prompt)

        if ok in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'):

            return True

        if ok in ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'):

            return False

        retries = retries - 1

        if retries < 0:

            raise IOError

        print complaint

#propagated from mercurial documentation

ui_sections = ['alias', 'auth',

                'decode/encode', 'defaults',

                'diff', 'email',

                'extensions', 'format',

                'merge-patterns', 'merge-tools',

                'hooks', 'http_proxy',

                'smtp', 'patch',

                'paths', 'profiling',

                'server', 'trusted',

                'ui', 'web', ]

def make_ui(read_from='file', path=None, checkpaths=True, clear_session=True):

    """

    A function that will read python rc files or database

    and make an mercurial ui object from read options

    :param path: path to mercurial config file

    :param checkpaths: check the path

    :param read_from: read from 'file' or 'db'

    """

    baseui = ui.ui()

    # clean the baseui object

    baseui._ocfg = config.config()

    baseui._ucfg = config.config()

    baseui._tcfg = config.config()

    if read_from == 'file':

        if not os.path.isfile(path):

            log.debug('hgrc file is not present at %s, skipping...' % path)

            return False

        log.debug('reading hgrc from %s' % path)

        cfg = config.config()

        cfg.read(path)

        for section in ui_sections:

            for k, v in cfg.items(section):

                log.debug('settings ui from file: [%s] %s=%s' % (section, k, v))

                baseui.setconfig(safe_str(section), safe_str(k), safe_str(v))

    elif read_from == 'db':

        sa = meta.Session()

        hg_ui = ret

        for ui_ in hg_ui:

            if ui_.ui_active:

                ui_val = safe_str(ui_.ui_value)

                if ui_.ui_section == 'hooks' and BRAND != 'kallithea' and ui_val.startswith('python:' + BRAND + '.lib.hooks.'):

                    ui_val = ui_val.replace('python:' + BRAND + '.lib.hooks.', 'python:kallithea.lib.hooks.')

                log.debug('settings ui from db: [%s] %s=%s', ui_.ui_section,

                          ui_.ui_key, ui_val)

                baseui.setconfig(safe_str(ui_.ui_section), safe_str(ui_.ui_key),

                                 ui_val)

            if ui_.ui_key == 'push_ssl':

                # force set push_ssl requirement to False, kallithea

                # handles that

                baseui.setconfig(safe_str(ui_.ui_section), safe_str(ui_.ui_key),

                                 False)

        if clear_session:

            meta.Session.remove()

    return baseui

def set_app_settings(config):

    """

    Updates pylons config with new settings from database

    :param config:

    """

    hgsettings = Setting.get_app_settings()

    for k, v in hgsettings.items():

        config[k] = v

def set_vcs_config(config):

    """

    Patch VCS config with some Kallithea specific stuff

    :param config: kallithea.CONFIG

    """

    import kallithea

    from kallithea.lib.vcs import conf

    from kallithea.lib.utils2 import aslist

    conf.settings.BACKENDS = {

        'hg': 'kallithea.lib.vcs.backends.hg.MercurialRepository',

        'git': 'kallithea.lib.vcs.backends.git.GitRepository',

    }

    conf.settings.GIT_EXECUTABLE_PATH = config.get('git_path', 'git')

    conf.settings.GIT_REV_FILTER = config.get('git_rev_filter', '--all').strip()

    conf.settings.DEFAULT_ENCODINGS = aslist(config.get('default_encoding',

                                                        'utf8'), sep=',')

def map_groups(path):

    """

    Given a full path to a repository, create all nested groups that this

    repo is inside. This function creates parent-child relationships between

    groups and creates default perms for all new groups.

    :param paths: full path to repository

    """

    sa = meta.Session()

    groups = path.split(Repository.url_sep())

    parent = None

    group = None

    # last element is repo in nested groups structure

    groups = groups[:-1]

    rgm = RepoGroupModel(sa)

    owner = User.get_first_admin()

    for lvl, group_name in enumerate(groups):

        group_name = '/'.join(groups[:lvl] + [group_name])

        group = RepoGroup.get_by_group_name(group_name)

        desc = '%s group' % group_name

        # skip folders that are now removed repos

        if REMOVED_REPO_PAT.match(group_name):

            break

        if group is None:

            log.debug('creating group level: %s group_name: %s'

                      % (lvl, group_name))

            group = RepoGroup(group_name, parent)

            group.group_description = desc

            group.user = owner

            sa.add(group)

            perm_obj = rgm._create_default_perms(group)

            sa.add(perm_obj)

            sa.flush()

        parent = group

    return group

def repo2db_mapper(initial_repo_list, remove_obsolete=False,

                   install_git_hook=False, user=None):