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Thomas De Schampheleire

hooks: make the Python interpreter for Git hooks configurable as 'git_hook_interpreter' (Issue #333)

Commit 5e501b6ee639 introduced the use of 'sys.executable' as interpreter
for git hooks instead of 'python2' with the following argument:

"Windows doesn't necessarily have "python2" available in $PATH, but we
still want to make sure we don't end up invoking a python3. Using the
absolute path seems more safe."

But, sys.executable does not necessarily point to Python. When Kallithea is
started under uWSGI, sys.executable points to the uwsgi executable. As a
result, the interpreter encoded in the git hooks on the server repositories
would be:

#!/path/to/uwsgi

And pushing to such repo would result in following client errors:

$ git push
Password for 'http://user@localhost:5050':
Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 241 bytes | 241.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: unable to load configuration from hooks/pre-receive
To http://localhost:5050/gitrepo-new
! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'http://user@localhost:5050/gitrepo-new'

Fix this problem by introducing a configuration setting 'git_hook_interpreter'
that allow administrators to specify which Python interpreter to use.

A subsequent commit will cause its value to be filled in automatically when
generating a new ini file, but an administrator can always override it.

.. _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/