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Søren Løvborg

db: add some PullRequest.query() shortcuts

This makes database query code more explicit and increases readability.

E.g. the function name get_pullrequest_cnt_for_user was bad, because the
concept of "pullrequest for user" is incredibly vague, and could refer
to any kind of association between PRs and users. (Quiz time! Does it
mean that the user is the PR owner, that the user is reviewing, or that
the user has commented on the PR and thus is receiving notifications?)

A descriptive name could be "get_open_pull_request_count_for_reviewer",
because the function is indeed only concerned with reviewers and only
with open pull requests. But at this point, we might as well say
PullRequest.query(reviewer_id=user, include_closed=False).count()
which is only slightly longer, and doesn't require us to write dozens
of little wrapper functions (including, any moment now, a separate
function for listing the PRs instead of counting them).

Note that we're not actually going down an abstraction level by doing
this. We're still operating on the concepts of "pull request", "open"
and "reviewer", and are not leaking database implementation details.

The query() shortcuts are designed so they default to not altering
the query. Any processing requires explicit opt-in by the caller.

.. _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/