add git_path_buf helper function

If you have a function that uses git_path a lot, but would
prefer to avoid the static buffers, it's useful to keep a
single scratch buffer locally and reuse it for each call.
You used to be able to do this with git_snpath:

  char buf[PATH_MAX];

  foo(git_snpath(buf, sizeof(buf), "foo"));
  bar(git_snpath(buf, sizeof(buf), "bar"));

but since 1a83c24, git_snpath has been replaced with
strbuf_git_path. This is good, because it removes the
arbitrary PATH_MAX limit. But using strbuf_git_path is more
awkward for two reasons:

  1. It adds to the buffer, rather than replacing it. This
     is consistent with other strbuf functions, but makes
     reuse of a single buffer more tedious.

  2. It doesn't return the buffer, so you can't format
     as part of a function's arguments.

The new git_path_buf solves both of these, so you can use it
like:

  struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;

  foo(git_path_buf(&buf, "foo"));
  bar(git_path_buf(&buf, "bar"));

  strbuf_release(&buf);

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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