login: don't use mutable globals as defauls

logging: improve logging on failed auth user lookup

logging: improve how we log user lookup

repo: when creating repos if we don't get JSON results, stop execution at refresh.

packaging: Expose the local overrides via passthru.

ini: small updates for development.ini

search: update whoosh fallback schema to sort on date too

search: sort commit messages by date rather than revision

tests: refactor test_update_repo for clarity

bugfix: remove accidental addition