[PATCH jn/paginate-fix 0/12] Re: git --paginate: do not commit pager choice too early

Junio C Hamano wrote:

    So delay the pager startup when possible:
    
    1. run_argv() already commits pager choice inside run_builtin() if a
       command is found.  For commands that use RUN_SETUP, waiting until
       then fixes the problem described above: once git knows where to
       look, it happily respects the core.pager setting.

... and for commands that do not use RUN_SETUP, what happens?

Let’s help some of them out a little.

These patches teach a few more built-ins to do something like
RUN_SETUP; more precisely, a RUN_SETUP_GENTLY facility is introduced
to run setup_git_directory_gently() early just like NEEDS_PREFIX has
always caused setup_git_directory() to be run early.

This series wouldn’t be possible without Duy’s recent efforts to roll
out other fixes from the famous nd/setup topic --- thanks!
The patches should be familiar[1] and I think they are better
justified now.

The first 8 patches apply on top to jn/paginate-fix from pu.  Between
patch 8 and 9 I have a merge of jn/maint-setup-fix^, with the
following explanation:

	Merge branch 'jn/maint-setup-fix' (early part) into jn/paginate-fix

	That topic includes a fix for “git index-pack” (which used
	to save the cwd before the repository search to work around
	a bug) which is needed before the repository search can be
	safely run earlier.

That merge involves a trivial conflict between adding the
RUN_SETUP_GENTLY flag for this topic and removing USE_PAGER for
grep -O.  The conflict is only nominal --- the two changes do not
interfere with each other.

One final note: this series is deliberately very conservative, in that
it does not touch commands like diff (which has a --no-index mode
suppressing the repository search).  Such commands are neither
helped nor hindered by this series, and I think that during this
transition time we should be opportunistic rather than rigid: the rule
is to run the repository search as soon as can be easily justified but
no sooner.

Thoughts welcome, as always.

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (12):
  git wrapper: introduce startup_info struct
  setup: remember whether repository was found
  git wrapper: allow setup_git_directory_gently() be called earlier
  shortlog: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  grep: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  apply: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  bundle: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  config: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  index-pack: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  ls-remote: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  var: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner
  merge-file: run setup_git_directory_gently() sooner

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144000/focus=144110