Hi,

this is the second version of my patch series that aims to drop
`the_index`.

Changes compared to v1:

  - This version goes a bit further now and completely drops the
    static `the_index` variable, as well. The repository's index gets
    allocated dynamically now, like all the other sub-structures like
    the ODB.

  - This also allows this series to remove `initialize_the_repository()`
    now. Instead, callers call `initialize_repository()` now.

There is still quite an ugly hack in `initialize_repository()` which
requires us to treat `the_repository` specially. This is because
`the_hash_algo` maps to `the_repository->hash_algo`, and we rely on it
being initialized to SHA1. So we need call `repo_set_hash_algo()` on
`the_repository`. On the other hand, we cannot set the hash algo on
repos which are not `the_repository`, because that breaks stuff, as
well.

I'm currently prepping another patch series that builds on top of this
series and cleans up this mess. It surfaces several bugs that got masked
by our setup, like for example `git rev-parse --short=` not working
correctly with SHA256 because we always truncate to the maximum length
of SHA1.

Patrick

Patrick Steinhardt (6):
  t/helper: stop using `the_index`
  builtin: stop using `the_index`
  repository: initialize index in `repo_init()`
  builtin/clone: stop using `the_index`
  repository: drop `the_index` variable
  repository: drop `initialize_the_repository()`

 builtin/add.c                        |  48 +++++------
 builtin/am.c                         |  36 ++++----
 builtin/cat-file.c                   |   4 +-
 builtin/check-attr.c                 |   5 +-
 builtin/check-ignore.c               |   7 +-
 builtin/checkout-index.c             |  22 ++---
 builtin/checkout.c                   |  87 ++++++++++---------
 builtin/clean.c                      |   7 +-
 builtin/clone.c                      |   7 +-
 builtin/commit.c                     |  81 +++++++++---------
 builtin/describe.c                   |   3 +-
 builtin/diff-tree.c                  |   3 +-
 builtin/diff.c                       |   6 +-
 builtin/difftool.c                   |   4 +-
 builtin/merge-index.c                |  17 ++--
 builtin/merge-tree.c                 |   3 +-
 builtin/merge.c                      |  31 ++++---
 builtin/mv.c                         |  68 +++++++--------
 builtin/pull.c                       |   4 +-
 builtin/read-tree.c                  |  15 ++--
 builtin/rebase.c                     |   3 +-
 builtin/replay.c                     |   1 -
 builtin/reset.c                      |  32 +++----
 builtin/rev-parse.c                  |   6 +-
 builtin/rm.c                         |  40 ++++-----
 builtin/stash.c                      |  45 +++++-----
 builtin/submodule--helper.c          |  21 +++--
 builtin/update-index.c               | 122 +++++++++++++--------------
 builtin/write-tree.c                 |   6 +-
 common-main.c                        |   2 +-
 oss-fuzz/fuzz-commit-graph.c         |   3 +-
 repository.c                         |  50 ++++++-----
 repository.h                         |   5 +-
 t/helper/test-cache-tree.c           |  17 ++--
 t/helper/test-dump-cache-tree.c      |   5 +-
 t/helper/test-dump-split-index.c     |  11 ++-
 t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache.c |   3 +-
 t/helper/test-lazy-init-name-hash.c  |  39 +++++----
 t/helper/test-read-cache.c           |  11 ++-
 t/helper/test-scrap-cache-tree.c     |   7 +-
 t/helper/test-write-cache.c          |   3 +-
 41 files changed, 435 insertions(+), 455 deletions(-)

Range-diff against v1:
1:  7b5ec04efc = 1:  1baacc1fd8 t/helper: stop using `the_index`
2:  9d5f2eff8a ! 2:  371f69a2c9 builtin: stop using `the_index`
    @@ builtin/cat-file.c
       * Copyright (C) Linus Torvalds, 2005
       */
     -#define USE_THE_INDEX_VARIABLE
    ++
      #include "builtin.h"
      #include "config.h"
      #include "convert.h"
    @@ builtin/commit.c: static const char *prepare_index(const char **argv, const char
      		} else
      			warning(_("Failed to update main cache tree"));
     @@ builtin/commit.c: static const char *prepare_index(const char **argv, const char *prefix,
    - 		add_files_to_cache(the_repository, also ? prefix : NULL,
    - 				   &pathspec, 0, 0);
    + 			exit(128);
    + 
      		refresh_cache_or_die(refresh_flags);
     -		cache_tree_update(&the_index, WRITE_TREE_SILENT);
     -		if (write_locked_index(&the_index, &index_lock, 0))
3:  96256f9eb3 = 3:  416612e7e3 repository: initialize index in `repo_init()`
4:  881b6d2f7d = 4:  6fb1492018 builtin/clone: stop using `the_index`
5:  80c36225bc < -:  ---------- repository: drop global `the_index` variable
-:  ---------- > 5:  549f8c048f repository: drop `the_index` variable
-:  ---------- > 6:  ed722b9b4b repository: drop `initialize_the_repository()`
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