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Bradley M. Kuhn

Imported some of the GPLv3'd changes from RhodeCode v2.2.5.

This imports changes between changesets 21af6c4eab3d and 6177597791c2 in
RhodeCode's original repository, including only changes to Python files and HTML.

RhodeCode clearly licensed its changes to these files under GPLv3
in their /LICENSE file, which states the following:
The Python code and integrated HTML are licensed under the GPLv3 license.

(See:
https://code.rhodecode.com/rhodecode/files/v2.2.5/LICENSE
or
http://web.archive.org/web/20140512193334/https://code.rhodecode.com/rhodecode/files/f3b123159901f15426d18e3dc395e8369f70ebe0/LICENSE
for an online copy of that LICENSE file)

Conservancy reviewed these changes and confirmed that they can be licensed as
a whole to the Kallithea project under GPLv3-only.

While some of the contents committed herein are clearly licensed
GPLv3-or-later, on the whole we must assume the are GPLv3-only, since the
statement above from RhodeCode indicates that they intend GPLv3-only as their
license, per GPLv3§14 and other relevant sections of GPLv3.

.. _locking:

===================================
RhodeCode repository locking system
===================================


| Repos with **locking function=disabled** is the default, that's how repos work
  today.
| Repos with **locking function=enabled** behaves like follows:

Repos have a state called `locked` that can be true or false.
The hg/git commands `hg/git clone`, `hg/git pull`, and `hg/git push`
influence this state:

- The command `hg/git pull <repo>` will lock that repo (locked=true)
  if the user has write/admin permissions on this repo

- The command `hg/git clone <repo>` will lock that repo (locked=true) if the
  user has write/admin permissions on this repo


RhodeCode will remember the user id who locked the repo
only this specific user can unlock the repo (locked=false) by calling

- `hg/git push <repo>`

every other command on that repo from this user and
every command from any other user will result in http return code 423 (locked)


additionally the http error includes the <user> that locked the repo
(e.g. “repository <repo> locked by user <user>”)


So the scenario of use for repos with `locking function` enabled is that
every initial clone and every pull gives users (with write permission)
the exclusive right to do a push.


Each repo can be manually unlocked by admin from the repo settings menu.