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Mads Kiilerich

ssh: drop usk_public_key_idx again

Essentially a backout of d2a97f73fa1f and the
4851d15bc437_db_migration_step_after_95c01895c006_ alembic step.

We can't reliably have full index on fields with unbounded length. The
upgrade step has been reported to fail on MySQL [1]:

sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError)
(1170, "BLOB/TEXT column 'public_key' used in key specification without
a key length") [SQL: u'CREATE INDEX usk_public_key_idx ON user_ssh_keys
(public_key)'] (Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/e3q8)

And we really don't need this index ... especially now when we use
fingerprints for key deletion instead of looking up by the full public key.

[1] https://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/kallithea-general/2019q4/003068.html

.. _vcs_setup:

=============================
Version control systems setup
=============================

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. For example, to
disable Git but keep Mercurial enabled:

.. code-block:: python

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


Git-specific setup
------------------


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 `gearbox serve` instead of the built-in `paste` WSGI
server.

The web server used by gearbox 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 =

Increasing Git HTTP POST buffer size
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If Git pushes fail with HTTP error code 411 (Length Required), you may need to
increase the Git HTTP POST buffer. Run the following command as the user that
runs Kallithea to set a global Git variable to this effect::

    git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000


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