if not sa:

        sa = meta.Session

    try:

        if hasattr(user, 'user_id'):

            user_obj = user

        elif isinstance(user, basestring):

            user_obj = User.get_by_username(user)

        else:

            raise Exception('You have to provide user object or username')

        if hasattr(repo, 'repo_id'):

            repo_obj = Repository.get(repo.repo_id)

            repo_name = repo_obj.repo_name

        elif  isinstance(repo, basestring):

            repo_name = repo.lstrip('/')

            repo_obj = Repository.get_by_repo_name(repo_name)

        else:

            raise Exception('You have to provide repository to action logger')

        user_log = UserLog()

        user_log.user_id = user_obj.user_id

        user_log.action = action

        user_log.repository_id = repo_obj.repo_id

        user_log.repository_name = repo_name

        user_log.action_date = datetime.datetime.now()

        user_log.user_ip = ipaddr

        sa.add(user_log)

        log.info('Adding user %s, action %s on %s', user_obj, action, repo)

        if commit:

            sa.commit()

    except:

        log.error(traceback.format_exc())

        raise

def get_repos(path, recursive=False):

    """

    Scans given path for repos and return (name,(type,path)) tuple

    :param path: path to scann for repositories

    :param recursive: recursive search and return names with subdirs in front

    """

    def _get_repos(p):

        if not os.access(p, os.W_OK):

            return

        for dirpath in os.listdir(p):

            if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(p, dirpath)):

                continue

            cur_path = os.path.join(p, dirpath)

            try:

                scm_info = get_scm(cur_path)

            except VCSError:

                if not recursive:

                    continue

                #check if this dir containts other repos for recursive scan

                rec_path = os.path.join(p, dirpath)

                if os.path.isdir(rec_path):

                    for inner_scm in _get_repos(rec_path):

                        yield inner_scm

    return _get_repos(path)

def is_valid_repo(repo_name, base_path):

    """

    Returns True if given path is a valid repository False otherwise

    :param repo_name:

    :param base_path:

    :return True: if given path is a valid repository

    """

    full_path = os.path.join(base_path, repo_name)

    try:

        get_scm(full_path)

        return True

    except VCSError:

        return False

def is_valid_repos_group(repos_group_name, base_path):

    """

    Returns True if given path is a repos group False otherwise

    :param repo_name:

    :param base_path:

    """

    full_path = os.path.join(base_path, repos_group_name)

    # check if it's not a repo

    if is_valid_repo(repos_group_name, base_path):

        return False

    # check if it's a valid path

    if os.path.isdir(full_path):

        return True

    return False

def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no, please!'):