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Mads Kiilerich
git: more elegant handling of installed pre/post-receive hook failing on direct repo access

The hook would fail with a long backtrace when get_hook_environment raise an error exception.

Instead, as first thing in the entry point from the hook, catch that situation
and report it nicely before "quietly" skipping the hook:

[mk@here myrepo]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 204 bytes | 204.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Skipping Kallithea Git post-recieve hook 'hooks/post-receive'.
remote: Git was apparently not invoked by Kallithea: Environment variable KALLITHEA_EXTRAS not found
To /tmp/somerepo
* [new branch] master -> master
[mk@here myrepo]$

We could be paranoid and let it (and the pre hook) fail ... but that doesn't
seem helpful.

Reported by Edmund Wong at [1].

[1] https://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/kallithea-general/2019q4/003071.html
.. _debugging:

===================
Debugging Kallithea
===================

If you encounter problems with Kallithea, here are some instructions
on how to debug them.

.. note:: First make sure you're using the latest version available.


Enable detailed debug
---------------------

Kallithea uses the standard Python ``logging`` module to log its output.
By default only loggers with ``INFO`` level are displayed. To enable full output
change ``level = DEBUG`` for all logging handlers in the currently used .ini file.
This change will allow you to see much more detailed output in the log file or
console. This generally helps a lot to track issues.


Enable interactive debug mode
-----------------------------

To enable interactive debug mode simply comment out ``set debug = false`` in
the .ini file. This will trigger an interactive debugger each time
there is an error in the browser, or send a http link if an error occurred in the backend. This
is a great tool for fast debugging as you get a handy Python console right
in the web view.

.. warning:: NEVER ENABLE THIS ON PRODUCTION! The interactive console
             can be a serious security threat to your system.