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Kallithea README

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About

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**Kallithea** is a fast and powerful management tool for Mercurial_ and Git_

with a built-in push/pull server, full text search and code-review. It works on

to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory. Kallithea also provides simple API

so it's easy to integrate with existing external systems.

Kallithea is similar in some respects to GitHub_ or Bitbucket_, however

Kallithea can be run as standalone hosted application on your own server. It is

self-administered interface for Mercurial_ and Git_ repositories. Kallithea

Kallithea was forked from RhodeCode in July 2014 and has been heavily modified.

Installation

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virtualenv_. Official releases of Kallithea can be installed with::

    pip install kallithea

The development repository is kept very stable and used in production by the

developers -- you can do the same.

Please visit https://docs.kallithea-scm.org/en/latest/installation.html for

more details.

There is also an experimental `Puppet module`_ for installing and setting up

Kallithea. Currently, only basic functionality is provided, but it is still

The issue tracker and a repository mirror can be found at Bitbucket_ on

https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea.

Kallithea features

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- Has its own middleware to handle Mercurial_ and Git_ protocol requests. Each

  request is authenticated and logged together with IP address.

- Built for speed and performance. You can make multiple pulls/pushes

  simultaneously. Proven to work with thousands of repositories and users.

- Full permissions (private/read/write/admin) together with IP restrictions for

  each repository, additional explicit forking, repositories group and

  repository creation permissions.

- User groups for easier permission management.

- Repository groups let you group repos and manage them easier. They come with

  permission delegation features, so you can delegate groups management.

- Users can fork other users repos, and compare them at any time.

- Built-in versioned paste functionality (Gist) for sharing code snippets.

- Integrates easily with other systems, with custom created mappers you can

  connect it to almost any issue tracker, and with a JSON-RPC API you can make

  much more.

- Built-in commit API lets you add, edit and commit files right from Kallithea

  web interface using simple editor or upload binary files using simple form.

- Powerful pull request driven review system with inline commenting, changeset

  statuses, and notification system.

- Importing and syncing repositories from remote locations for Git_, Mercurial_

  and Subversion.

- Mako templates let you customize the look and feel of the application.

- Beautiful diffs, annotations and source code browsing all colored by

  pygments. Raw diffs are made in Git-diff format for both VCS systems,

  including Git_ binary-patches.

- Mercurial_ and Git_ DAG graphs and Flot-powered graphs with zooming and

  statistics to track activity for repositories.

  pulls, pushes, forks, registrations and other actions made by all users.

- Server side forks. It is possible to fork a project and modify it freely

  without breaking the main repository.

- reST and Markdown README support for repositories.

- Full text search powered by Whoosh on the source files, commit messages, and

  file names. Built-in indexing daemons, with optional incremental index build

  (no external search servers required all in one application).

- Setup project descriptions/tags and info inside built in DB for easy,

  non-filesystem operations.

- Intelligent cache with invalidation after push or project change, provides

  high performance and always up to date data.

- RSS/Atom feeds, Gravatar support, downloadable sources as zip/tar/gz.

- Optional async tasks for speed and performance using Celery_.

- Backup scripts can do backup of whole app and send it over scp to desired

  location.

License

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**Kallithea** is released under the GPLv3 license. Kallithea is a `Software

Freedom Conservancy`_ project and thus controlled by a non-profit organization.

No commercial entity can take ownership of the project and change the

direction.

Kallithea started out as an effort to make sure the existing GPLv3 codebase

would stay available under a legal license. Kallithea thus has to stay GPLv3

of Kallithea.

.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/

.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

.. _Bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/

.. _GitHub: http://github.com/

.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/

.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/

.. _Celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _Software Freedom Conservancy: http://sfconservancy.org/

.. _Puppet module: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/rauch/kallithea