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initial idea on --progress for git calls

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Ref: all heated discussions around https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/2844
The main point is -- `git annex init --version=6`, while running on a crippled system might need some time to accomplish the mission of unlocking a big number of files, which leads to `Checking out` progress update spit out by `git`. BUT if someone (us) swallows stderr, `git` does not produce any progress output unless that command (checkout, pull, fetch, etc...) provides explicit `--progress` flag. According to IRC there is no config setting to trigger that behavior in `git`. Could may be `git annex` get a config setting alike `force-git-progress` which would add `--progress` to any relevant `git` call whenever git is ran without stderr being swallowed by annex?
Thanks in advance for considering
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