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Mathias De Mare
pullrequests: introduce limit to stop displaying additional changes

We've noticed some scalability issues when many descendants exist for the
changesets in a pull request.

To resolve this issue, we instead do not display any additional changes at all
if the amount of additional changes is larger than a configured limit.

(This occurred because we were merging a lot of heads in the repository.)

Throwing away some of the changesets would also keep the total amount more
manageable, but this would result in an (for the user) unpredictable subset of
changesets being shown.

This could be extended further with "too long to be shown - click here to
show", but that was quite a bit of additional work and did not cover our use
case of not allowing the display at all in case of too many additional changes.
.. _vcs_setup:

=============================
Version control systems setup
=============================

Kallithea supports Git and Mercurial repositories out-of-the-box.
For Git, you do need the ``git`` command line client installed on the server.

You can always disable Git or Mercurial support by editing the
file ``kallithea/__init__.py`` and commenting out the backend. For example, to
disable Git but keep Mercurial enabled:

.. code-block:: python

   BACKENDS = {
       'hg': 'Mercurial repository',
       #'git': 'Git repository',
   }


Git-specific setup
------------------


Web server with chunked encoding
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Large Git pushes require an HTTP server with support for
chunked encoding for POST. The Python web servers waitress_ and
gunicorn_ (Linux only) can be used. By default, Kallithea uses
waitress_ for `gearbox serve` instead of the built-in `paste` WSGI
server.

The web server used by gearbox is controlled in the .ini file::

    use = egg:waitress#main

or::

    use = egg:gunicorn#main

Also make sure to comment out the following options::

    threadpool_workers =
    threadpool_max_requests =
    use_threadpool =

Increasing Git HTTP POST buffer size
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If Git pushes fail with HTTP error code 411 (Length Required), you may need to
increase the Git HTTP POST buffer. Run the following command as the user that
runs Kallithea to set a global Git variable to this effect::

    git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000


.. _waitress: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/waitress
.. _gunicorn: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gunicorn
.. _subrepositories: http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/subrepositories/