diff: restrict when prefetching occurs

Commit 7fbbcb21b1 ("diff: batch fetching of missing blobs", 2019-04-08)
optimized "diff" by prefetching blobs in a partial clone, but there are
some cases wherein blobs do not need to be prefetched. In these cases,
any command that uses the diff machinery will unnecessarily fetch blobs.

diffcore_std() may read blobs when it calls the following functions:
 (1) diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch() (controlled by the config variable
     diff.autorefreshindex)
 (2) diffcore_break() and diffcore_merge_broken() (for break-rewrite
     detection)
 (3) diffcore_rename() (for rename detection)
 (4) diffcore_pickaxe() (for detecting addition/deletion of specified
     string)

Instead of always prefetching blobs, teach diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch(),
diffcore_break(), and diffcore_rename() to prefetch blobs upon the first
read of a missing object. This covers (1), (2), and (3): to cover the
rest, teach diffcore_std() to prefetch if the output type is one that
includes blob data (and hence blob data will be required later anyway),
or if it knows that (4) will be run.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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