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Søren Løvborg
cleanup: remove SQLAlchemy session argument to action_logger

There's always a global SQLAlchemy session associated with the current
thread; using another session for a single function call does not make
any sense (as sessions cannot be mixed), unless the code works carefully
to ensure the two sessions (and all objects loaded from them) are kept
completely separate. Suffice to say that Kallithea does no such thing,
thus there's no need to pretend to support multiple concurrent sessions.
.. _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.