introduce CHECKOUT_INIT

Add a static initializer for struct checkout and use it throughout the
code base.  It's shorter, avoids a memset(3) call and makes sure the
base_dir member is initialized to a valid (empty) string.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin/checkout-index.c b/builtin/checkout-index.c
index 92c6967..30a49d9 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout-index.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout-index.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ static int checkout_stage; /* default to checkout stage0 */
 static int to_tempfile;
 static char topath[4][TEMPORARY_FILENAME_LENGTH + 1];
 
-static struct checkout state;
+static struct checkout state = CHECKOUT_INIT;
 
 static void write_tempfile_record(const char *name, const char *prefix)
 {