Merge branch 'nd/the-index'

Merge branch 'nd/the-index'

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
  ...