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tests: Mercurial hooks must use ui.status for messages sent to the client Mercurial changed so sys.stdout and sys.stderr now are intercepted instead of being sent to the client. That caused a regression that manual_test_vcs_operations.py test_push_new_file_hg caught - we no longer reported 'Repository size' to the user. The issue was introduced by a Mercurial change, but the fix is backwards compatible with Mercurial 2.9. The fix is to use ui.status everywhere. ui is a Mercurial thing, but handle_git_receive also creates a ui object for Git hooks so ui.status can be used there too.
author domruf <dominikruf@gmail.com>
date Tue, 03 May 2016 00:12:55 +0200
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.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    paster make-rcext my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.