raise Exception('You have to provide a user object or a username')

        if hasattr(repo, 'repo_id'):

            repo_obj = Repository.get(repo.repo_id)

            repo_name = repo_obj.repo_name

        elif  isinstance(repo, basestring):

            repo_name = repo.lstrip('/')

            repo_obj = Repository.get_by_repo_name(repo_name)

        else:

            repo_obj = None

            repo_name = ''

        user_log = UserLog()

        user_log.user_id = user_obj.user_id

        user_log.username = user_obj.username

        user_log.action = safe_unicode(action)

        user_log.repository = repo_obj

        user_log.repository_name = repo_name

        user_log.action_date = datetime.datetime.now()

        user_log.user_ip = ipaddr

        sa.add(user_log)

        if commit:

            sa.commit()

    except:

        log.error(traceback.format_exc())

        raise

def get_repos(path, recursive=False):

    """

    Scans given path for repos and return (name,(type,path)) tuple

    :param path: path to scan for repositories

    :param recursive: recursive search and return names with subdirs in front

    """

    # remove ending slash for better results

    path = path.rstrip(os.sep)

    def _get_repos(p):

        if not os.access(p, os.W_OK):

            return

        for dirpath in os.listdir(p):

            if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(p, dirpath)):

                continue