The built-in `git add -i` machinery obviously has its `the_repository`
structure initialized at the point where `cmd_commit()` calls it, and
therefore does not look at the environment variable `GIT_INDEX_FILE`.
But when being called from `commit --interactive`, it has to, because
the index was already locked in that case, and we want to ask the
interactive add machinery to work on the `index.lock` file instead of
the `index` file.
Technically, we could teach `run_add_i()`, or for that matter
`run_add_p()`, to look specifically at that environment variable, but
the entire idea of passing in a parameter of type `struct repository *`
is to allow working on multiple repositories (and their index files)
independently.
So let's instead override the `index_file` field of that structure
temporarily.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin