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Mads Kiilerich
gearbox: make a make-config sub-command available again

Drop the old kallithea-config command line tool and rework it to a replacement
for the make-config paster command. Make-config was experimental in paste, it
doesn't exist with gearbox, it was tied to pylons, and we already have the
luxury problem of having two ways of doing almost the same thing. This is a
good opportunity to get rid of one of them.

This replacement tool is Kallithea specific and doesn't need to be told that it
is Kallithea it has to create a config file for. The command should thus
perhaps be given a Kallithea specific name instead of the very generic name ...
.. _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.