Examples::

    >>> recursive_replace("Mighty---Mighty-Bo--sstones",'-')

    'Mighty-Mighty-Bo-sstones'

    """

    if str.find(replace * 2) == -1:

        return str

    else:

        str = str.replace(replace * 2, replace)

        return recursive_replace(str, replace)

def repo_name_slug(value):

    """Return slug of name of repository

    This function is called on each creation/modification

    of repository to prevent bad names in repo

    """

    slug = remove_formatting(value)

    slug = strip_tags(slug)

    for c in """=[]\;'"<>,/~!@#$%^&*()+{}|: """:

        slug = slug.replace(c, '-')

    slug = recursive_replace(slug, '-')

    slug = collapse(slug, '-')

    return slug

def get_repo_slug(request):

    return request.environ['pylons.routes_dict'].get('repo_name')

def action_logger(user, action, repo, ipaddr='', sa=None):

    """

    Action logger for various actions made by users

    :param user: user that made this action, can be a unique username string or

        object containing user_id attribute

    :param action: action to log, should be on of predefined unique actions for

        easy translations

    :param repo: string name of repository or object containing repo_id,

        that action was made on

    :param ipaddr: optional ip address from what the action was made

    :param sa: optional sqlalchemy session

    """

    if not sa:

        sa = meta.Session()

    try:

        um = UserModel()

        if hasattr(user, 'user_id'):

            user_obj = user

        elif isinstance(user, basestring):

            user_obj = um.get_by_username(user, cache=False)

        else:

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

        rm = RepoModel()

        if hasattr(repo, 'repo_id'):

            repo_obj = rm.get(repo.repo_id, cache=False)

            repo_name = repo_obj.repo_name

        elif  isinstance(repo, basestring):

            repo_name = repo.lstrip('/')

            repo_obj = rm.get_by_repo_name(repo_name, cache=False)

        else:

            raise Exception('You have to provide repository to action logger')

        user_log = UserLog()

        user_log.user_id = user_obj.user_id

        user_log.action = action

        user_log.repository_id = repo_obj.repo_id

        user_log.repository_name = repo_name

        user_log.action_date = datetime.datetime.now()

        user_log.user_ip = ipaddr

        sa.add(user_log)

        sa.commit()

        log.info('Adding user %s, action %s on %s', user_obj, action, repo)

    except:

        log.error(traceback.format_exc())

        sa.rollback()

def get_repos(path, recursive=False):

    """

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

    :param path: path to scann for repositories

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

    """

    from vcs.utils.helpers import get_scm

    from vcs.exceptions import VCSError

        path = path[:-1]

    def _get_repos(p):

        for dirpath in os.listdir(p):

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

                continue

            cur_path = os.path.join(p, dirpath)

            try:

                scm_info = get_scm(cur_path)

                yield scm_info[1].split(path)[-1].lstrip(os.sep), scm_info

            except VCSError:

                if not recursive:

                    continue

                #check if this dir containts other repos for recursive scan

                rec_path = os.path.join(p, dirpath)

                if os.path.isdir(rec_path):

                    for inner_scm in _get_repos(rec_path):

                        yield inner_scm

    return _get_repos(path)

def check_repo_fast(repo_name, base_path):

    """

    Check given path for existence of directory

    :param repo_name:

    :param base_path:

    :return False: if this directory is present

    """

    if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(base_path, repo_name)):return False

    return True

def check_repo(repo_name, base_path, verify=True):

    repo_path = os.path.join(base_path, repo_name)

    try:

        if not check_repo_fast(repo_name, base_path):

            return False

        r = hg.repository(ui.ui(), repo_path)

        if verify:

            hg.verify(r)

        #here we hnow that repo exists it was verified

        log.info('%s repo is already created', repo_name)

        return False

    except RepoError:

        #it means that there is no valid repo there...

        log.info('%s repo is free for creation', repo_name)

        return True

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):

    """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.warning('Unable to read config file %s' % 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(section, k, v)

    try:

        from vcs import get_repo

        from vcs.utils.helpers import get_scm

        from vcs.exceptions import RepositoryError, VCSError

        repopath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..')

        scm = get_scm(repopath)[0]

        repo = get_repo(path=repopath, alias=scm)

        tip = repo.get_changeset()

        return (tip.revision, tip.short_id)

    except (ImportError, RepositoryError, VCSError), err:

        logging.debug("Cannot retrieve rhodecode's revision. Original error "

                      "was: %s" % err)

        return None

#===============================================================================

# TEST FUNCTIONS AND CREATORS

#===============================================================================

def create_test_index(repo_location, full_index):

    """Makes default test index

    :param repo_location:

    :param full_index:

    """

    from rhodecode.lib.indexers.daemon import WhooshIndexingDaemon

    from rhodecode.lib.pidlock import DaemonLock, LockHeld

    import shutil

    index_location = os.path.join(repo_location, 'index')

    if os.path.exists(index_location):

        shutil.rmtree(index_location)

    try:

        l = DaemonLock()

        WhooshIndexingDaemon(index_location=index_location,

                             repo_location=repo_location)\

            .run(full_index=full_index)

        l.release()

    except LockHeld:

        pass

def create_test_env(repos_test_path, config):

    """Makes a fresh database and

    install test repository into tmp dir

    """

    from rhodecode.lib.db_manage import DbManage

    from rhodecode.tests import HG_REPO, GIT_REPO, NEW_HG_REPO, NEW_GIT_REPO, \

        HG_FORK, GIT_FORK, TESTS_TMP_PATH

    import tarfile

    import shutil

    from os.path import dirname as dn, join as jn, abspath

    log = logging.getLogger('TestEnvCreator')

    # create logger

    log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

    log.propagate = True

    # create console handler and set level to debug

    ch = logging.StreamHandler()

    ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

    # create formatter

    formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s")

    # add formatter to ch

    ch.setFormatter(formatter)

    # add ch to logger

    log.addHandler(ch)

    #PART ONE create db

    dbconf = config['sqlalchemy.db1.url']

    log.debug('making test db %s', dbconf)

    dbmanage = DbManage(log_sql=True, dbconf=dbconf, root=config['here'],

                        tests=True)

    dbmanage.create_tables(override=True)

    dbmanage.create_settings(dbmanage.config_prompt(repos_test_path))

    dbmanage.create_default_user()

    dbmanage.admin_prompt()

    dbmanage.create_permissions()

    dbmanage.populate_default_permissions()

    #PART TWO make test repo

    log.debug('making test vcs repositories')

    #remove old one from previos tests

    for r in [HG_REPO, GIT_REPO, NEW_HG_REPO, NEW_GIT_REPO, HG_FORK, GIT_FORK]:

        if os.path.isdir(jn(TESTS_TMP_PATH, r)):

            log.debug('removing %s', r)

            shutil.rmtree(jn(TESTS_TMP_PATH, r))

    #CREATE DEFAULT HG REPOSITORY

    cur_dir = dn(dn(abspath(__file__)))

    tar = tarfile.open(jn(cur_dir, 'tests', "vcs_test_hg.tar.gz"))

    tar.extractall(jn(TESTS_TMP_PATH, HG_REPO))

    tar.close()

#==============================================================================

# PASTER COMMANDS

#==============================================================================

class BasePasterCommand(Command):

    """

    Abstract Base Class for paster commands.

    The celery commands are somewhat aggressive about loading

    celery.conf, and since our module sets the `CELERY_LOADER`

    environment variable to our loader, we have to bootstrap a bit and

    make sure we've had a chance to load the pylons config off of the

    command line, otherwise everything fails.

    """

    min_args = 1

    min_args_error = "Please provide a paster config file as an argument."

    takes_config_file = 1

    requires_config_file = True

    def notify_msg(self, msg, log=False):

        """Make a notification to user, additionally if logger is passed

        it logs this action using given logger

        :param msg: message that will be printed to user

        :param log: logging instance, to use to additionally log this message

        """

        if log and isinstance(log, logging):

            log(msg)

    def run(self, args):

        """

        Overrides Command.run

        Checks for a config file argument and loads it.

        """

        if len(args) < self.min_args:

            raise BadCommand(

                self.min_args_error % {'min_args': self.min_args,

                                       'actual_args': len(args)})

        # Decrement because we're going to lob off the first argument.

        # @@ This is hacky

        self.min_args -= 1

        self.bootstrap_config(args[0])

        self.update_parser()

        return super(BasePasterCommand, self).run(args[1:])

    def update_parser(self):

        """

        Abstract method.  Allows for the class's parser to be updated

        before the superclass's `run` method is called.  Necessary to

        allow options/arguments to be passed through to the underlying

        celery command.

        """

        raise NotImplementedError("Abstract Method.")

    def bootstrap_config(self, conf):

        """

        Loads the pylons configuration.

        """

        from pylons import config as pylonsconfig

        path_to_ini_file = os.path.realpath(conf)

        conf = paste.deploy.appconfig('config:' + path_to_ini_file)

        pylonsconfig.init_app(conf.global_conf, conf.local_conf)