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FUJIWARA Katsunori

indexers: use correct full repository name, which contains group name, at indexing

Before this revision, searching under the specific repository could
cause unexpected result, because repository names used for indexing didn't
contain the group name.

This issue was introduced by 8b7c0ef62427, which uses
repo.name_unicode as repository name instead of
safe_unicode(repo_name) to reduce unicode conversion cost while
repetition at indexing.

To use correct repository name at indexing, this revision replaces
repo.name_unicode by safe_unicode(repo_name). Reducing cost of repeated
unicode conversion cost while will (and should) be addressed in the
future.

This revision also adds a comment to BaseRepository.name property, to
avoid similar misunderstandings in the future.

.. _locking:

==================
Repository locking
==================

Kallithea has a *repository locking* feature, disabled by default. When
enabled, every initial clone and every pull gives users (with write permission)
the exclusive right to do a push.

When repository locking is enabled, repositories get a ``locked`` flag.
The hg/git commands ``hg/git clone``, ``hg/git pull``,
and ``hg/git push`` influence this state:

- A ``clone`` or ``pull`` action locks the target repository
  if the user has write/admin permissions on this repository.

- Kallithea will remember the user who locked the repository so only this
  specific user can unlock the repo by performing a ``push``
  command.

- Every other command on a locked repository from this user and every command
  from any other user will result in an HTTP return code 423 (Locked).
  Additionally, the HTTP error will mention the user that locked the repository
  (e.g., “repository <repo> locked by user <user>”).

Each repository can be manually unlocked by an administrator from the
repository settings menu.