Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default instance "the_index". * nd/the-index: (23 commits) revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r" combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index ...