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vcs: introduce 'branches' attribute on changesets, making it possible for Git to show multiple branches for a changeset

Mercurial changesets will always have have exactly one branch (which might be
"default"). The VCS data model was the same.

Git allows for a changeset to have 0 or more branches ... and possibly one of
them as active. The right data model is thus to have an enumerable of branches.

We thus add a 'branches' attribute and use it where applicable.

The existing 'branch' attribute used some heuristics to decide which branch use
as "the" branch ... and in some places code (and tests) rely on that. We thus
keep that old method, knowing that some of its uses probably should move to
'branches'.

The code for retrieving Git branches is based on work by Dominik Ruf.

.. _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.