Merge branch 'jk/common-main'

There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
potty does.  It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
programs (like test helpers).  A common "main()" function that
calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
make it harder to make mistakes.

* jk/common-main:
  mingw: declare main()'s argv as const
  common-main: call git_setup_gettext()
  common-main: call restore_sigpipe_to_default()
  common-main: call sanitize_stdfds()
  common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path()
  add an extra level of indirection to main()

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diff --git a/common-main.c b/common-main.c
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+#include "cache.h"
+#include "exec_cmd.h"
+
+/*
+ * Many parts of Git have subprograms communicate via pipe, expect the
+ * upstream of a pipe to die with SIGPIPE when the downstream of a
+ * pipe does not need to read all that is written.  Some third-party
+ * programs that ignore or block SIGPIPE for their own reason forget
+ * to restore SIGPIPE handling to the default before spawning Git and
+ * break this carefully orchestrated machinery.
+ *
+ * Restore the way SIGPIPE is handled to default, which is what we
+ * expect.
+ */
+static void restore_sigpipe_to_default(void)
+{
+	sigset_t unblock;
+
+	sigemptyset(&unblock);
+	sigaddset(&unblock, SIGPIPE);
+	sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &unblock, NULL);
+	signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Always open file descriptors 0/1/2 to avoid clobbering files
+	 * in die().  It also avoids messing up when the pipes are dup'ed
+	 * onto stdin/stdout/stderr in the child processes we spawn.
+	 */
+	sanitize_stdfds();
+
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
+	argv[0] = git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
+
+	restore_sigpipe_to_default();
+
+	return cmd_main(argc, argv);
+}