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Thomas De Schampheleire

Turbogears2 migration: use sqlalchemy.url iso sqlalchemy.db1.url

In Turbogears2, much of the application initialization is handled by the
framework, whereas in Pylons the application was responsible for it.
Initializing SQLAlchemy is one such part of initialization which is handled
by Turbogears2.

Turbogears2 expects the configuration file to refer to the database using
'sqlalchemy.url' rather than the current 'sqlalchemy.db1.url'. While the
exact name is not really important, not following this approach means we'll
need to override the sqlalchemy initialization method.

Therefore, as a preparation to the Turbogears2 migration, already change the
database reference string under Pylons.
When upgrading to a version of Kallithea containing this commit, the .ini
file will manually need to be adapted to remove the .db1 strings.

.. _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.