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files: fix raw download of repo files with names with unicode points above 256 in name

Raw download had apparently only been tested with non-ascii characters that
were latin1. That was apparently a (too) simple case that worked without
crashing.

Files with unicode code points above 256 in their name would fail to download,
when Waitress failed like this, trying to get a real byte string by encoding
WSGI headers to latin1:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 84-85: ordinal not in range(256)

HTTP headers are of course byte strings on the network, but Python3 WSGI does
unfortunately neither expose it as bytes nor as unicode strings to be encoded
as utf-8. Instead, it uses unicode strings with byte values encoded as code
points 0-255. That is achieved by decoding the utf-8 encoded bytes as latin1.

For raw downloads, the recommended download filename is provided in the
Content-Disposition header. The problem is that it was provided as a real
unicode string.

Fixed by applying the "proper" latin1-decoding of a utf8-encoding.

.. _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/