Do three things in parallel, don't wait for Repo::new()

src/info/deps/mod.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::path::Path;
 use std::{ffi::OsStr, fs};
 
 pub mod package_manager;
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ impl DependencyDetector {
         DependencyDetector { package_managers }
     }
 
-    pub fn get_dependencies(&self, dir: &str) -> Result<String> {
+    pub fn get_dependencies(&self, dir: &Path) -> Result<String> {
         let deps = fs::read_dir(dir)?
             .filter_map(std::result::Result::ok)
             .map(|entry| entry.path())

src/info/langs/mod.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use anyhow::{Context, Result};
 use language::{Language, LanguageType};
 use regex::Regex;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::path::Path;
 use strum::IntoEnumIterator;
 
 pub mod language;
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ pub fn get_dominant_language(languages_stat_vec: &[(Language, f64)]) -> Language
 }
 
 pub fn get_language_statistics(
-    dir: &str,
+    dir: &Path,
     ignored_directories: &[String],
     language_types: &[LanguageType],
     include_hidden: bool,
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ fn get_total_loc(languages: &tokei::Languages) -> usize {
 }
 
 fn get_statistics(
-    dir: &str,
+    dir: &Path,
     ignored_directories: &[String],
     language_types: &[LanguageType],
     include_hidden: bool,

src/info/license.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use anyhow::{bail, Result};
 use askalono::{Store, TextData};
+use std::path::Path;
 use std::{ffi::OsStr, fs};
 
 const LICENSE_FILES: [&str; 3] = ["LICENSE", "LICENCE", "COPYING"];
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ impl Detector {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn get_license(&self, dir: &str) -> Result<String> {
+    pub fn get_license(&self, dir: &Path) -> Result<String> {
         fn is_license_file<S: AsRef<str>>(file_name: S) -> bool {
             LICENSE_FILES
                 .iter()

src/info/mod.rs

@@ -159,13 +159,7 @@ impl Info {
     pub fn new(config: Config) -> Result<Self> {
         let git_version = cli::get_git_version();
         let repo = Repository::discover(&config.repo_path)?;
-        let mut internal_repo = Repo::new(
-            &repo,
-            config.no_merges,
-            &config.bot_regex_pattern,
-            config.number_of_authors,
-        )?;
-        let workdir = internal_repo.get_work_dir()?;
+        let workdir = repo.workdir().expect("non-bare repo").to_owned();
 
         let pending_changes = std::thread::spawn({
             let git_dir = repo.path().to_owned();
@@ -189,6 +183,12 @@ impl Info {
             }
         });
 
+        let mut internal_repo = Repo::new(
+            &repo,
+            config.no_merges,
+            &config.bot_regex_pattern,
+            config.number_of_authors,
+        )?;
         let (repo_name, repo_url) = internal_repo.get_name_and_url()?;
         let head_refs = internal_repo.get_head_refs()?;
         let version = internal_repo.get_version()?;

src/info/repo.rs

@@ -152,14 +152,6 @@ impl<'a> Repo<'a> {
         (bytes_to_human_readable(repo_size), file_count)
     }
 
-    pub fn get_work_dir(&self) -> Result<String> {
-        let workdir = self
-            .work_dir()?
-            .to_str()
-            .with_context(|| "invalid workdir")?;
-        Ok(workdir.to_string())
-    }
-
     pub fn get_number_of_tags(&self) -> Result<usize> {
         Ok(self.repo.references()?.tags()?.count())
     }
@@ -271,12 +263,6 @@ impl<'a> Repo<'a> {
             .collect();
         Ok(HeadRefs::new(head_oid.shorten()?.to_string(), refs_info))
     }
-
-    fn work_dir(&self) -> Result<&Path> {
-        self.repo
-            .work_dir()
-            .with_context(|| "unable to query workdir")
-    }
 }
 
 fn is_bot(author: git::actor::SignatureRef<'_>, bot_regex_pattern: &Option<Regex>) -> bool {