write_file: add pointer+len variant

There are many callsites which could use write_file, but for
which it is a little awkward because they have a strbuf or
other pointer/len combo. Specifically:

 1. write_file() takes a format string, so we have to use
    "%s" or "%.*s", which are ugly.

 2. Using any form of "%s" does not handle embedded NULs in
    the output. That probably doesn't matter for our
    call-sites, but it's nicer not to have to worry.

 3. It's less efficient; we format into another strbuf
    just to do the write. That's probably not measurably
    slow for our uses, but it's simply inelegant.

We can fix this by providing a helper to write out the
formatted buffer, and just calling it from write_file().

Note that we don't do the usual "complete with a newline"
that write_file does. If the caller has their own buffer,
there's a reasonable chance they're doing something more
complicated than a single line, and they can call
strbuf_complete_line() themselves.

We could go even further and add strbuf_write_file(), but it
doesn't save much:

  -  write_file_buf(path, sb.buf, sb.len);
  +  strbuf_write_file(&sb, path);

It would also be somewhat asymmetric with strbuf_read_file,
which actually returns errors rather than dying (and the
error handling is most of the benefit of write_file() in the
first place).

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

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