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General Kallithea usage

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Repository deleting

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Currently when an admin or owner deletes a repository, Kallithea does

not physically delete said repository from the filesystem, but instead

renames it in a special way so that it is not possible to push, clone

or access the repository.

There is a special command for cleaning up such archived repos::

    paster cleanup-repos --older-than=30d my.ini

This command scans for archived repositories that are older than

30 days, displays them, and asks if you want to delete them (unless given

the ``--dont-ask`` flag). If you host a large amount of repositories with

forks that are constantly being deleted, it is recommended that you run this

command via crontab.

It is worth noting that even if someone is given administrative access to

Kallithea and deletes a repository, you can easily restore such an action by

renaming the repository directory, removing the ``rm__<date>`` prefix.

Compare view from changelog

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Checkboxes in the compare view allow users to view a combined compare

view. You can only show the range between the first and last checkbox

(no cherry pick).  Clicking more than one checkbox will activate a

link at the top saying ``Show selected changesets <from-rev> ->

<to-rev>``. Clicking this will activate the compare view. In this view

it is also possible to switch to combined compare.

Compare view is also available from the journal on pushes having more than

one changeset.

Non changeable repository urls

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Due to the complicated nature of repository grouping, URLs of repositories

can often change.

example::

  #before

  http://server.com/repo_name

  # after insertion to test_group group the url will be

  http://server.com/test_group/repo_name

This can be an issue for build systems and any other hardcoded scripts, moving

a repository to a group leads to a need for changing external systems. To

overcome this Kallithea introduces a non-changable replacement URL. It's

simply a repository ID prefixed with ``_``. The above URLs are also accessible as::

  http://server.com/_<ID>

Since IDs are always the same, moving the repository will not affect

such a URL.  the ``_<ID>`` syntax can be used anywhere in the system so

URLs with ``repo_name`` for changelogs and files can be exchanged

with the ``_<ID>`` syntax.

E-mail notifications

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When the administrator correctly specified the e-mail settings in the Kallithea

configuration file, Kallithea will send e-mails on user registration and when

errors occur.