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Robert James Dennington

auth: Fix tomcat throwing '505 HTTP Version Not Supported' when trying to log in to Atlassian Crowd with usernames that contain spaces

If you try to log in to Kallithea via the Crowd auth module, and the username
contains a space, it fails. Tomcat on the Crowd server gives error '505 HTTP
Version Not Supported'.

Further investigation showed that the username was not being quoted. E.g. for
the user 'test account', the REST URL should contain 'test%20account' but
actually was containing 'test account'. When Tomcat received this HTTP request
it interprets the word 'account' as the HTTP version because of the space. This
obviously isn't a valid HTTP version.

This bug is fixed by using urllib2.quote on the username to ensure that special
characters are correctly quoted. After making that change on my local install,
the user 'test account' was able to log in successfully.

.. _vcs_support:

===============================
Version control systems support
===============================

Kallithea supports Git and Mercurial repositories out-of-the-box.
For Git, you do need the ``git`` command line client installed on the server.

You can always disable Git or Mercurial support by editing the
file ``kallithea/__init__.py`` and commenting out the backend.

.. code-block:: python

   BACKENDS = {
       'hg': 'Mercurial repository',
       #'git': 'Git repository',
   }


Git support
-----------


Web server with chunked encoding
````````````````````````````````

Large Git pushes require an HTTP server with support for
chunked encoding for POST. The Python web servers waitress_ and
gunicorn_ (Linux only) can be used. By default, Kallithea uses
waitress_ for `paster serve` instead of the built-in `paste` WSGI
server.

The paster server is controlled in the .ini file::

    use = egg:waitress#main

or::

    use = egg:gunicorn#main

Also make sure to comment out the following options::

    threadpool_workers =
    threadpool_max_requests =
    use_threadpool =


Mercurial support
-----------------


Working with Mercurial subrepositories
``````````````````````````````````````

This section explains how to use Mercurial subrepositories_ in Kallithea.

Example usage::

    ## init a simple repo
    hg init mainrepo
    cd mainrepo
    echo "file" > file
    hg add file
    hg ci --message "initial file"

    # clone subrepo we want to add from Kallithea
    hg clone http://kallithea.local/subrepo

    ## specify URL to existing repo in Kallithea as subrepository path
    echo "subrepo = http://kallithea.local/subrepo" > .hgsub
    hg add .hgsub
    hg ci --message "added remote subrepo"

In the file list of a clone of ``mainrepo`` you will see a connected
subrepository at the revision it was cloned with. Clicking on the
subrepository link sends you to the proper repository in Kallithea.

Cloning ``mainrepo`` will also clone the attached subrepository.

Next we can edit the subrepository data, and push back to Kallithea. This will
update both repositories.


.. _waitress: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/waitress
.. _gunicorn: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gunicorn
.. _subrepositories: http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/subrepositories/