alternates: provide helper for allocating alternate

Allocating a struct alternate_object_database is tricky, as
we must over-allocate the buffer to provide scratch space,
and then put in particular '/' and NUL markers.

Let's encapsulate this in a function so that the complexity
doesn't leak into callers (and so that we can modify it
later).

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

cache.h

@@ -1392,6 +1392,12 @@ extern char *compute_alternate_path(const char *path, struct strbuf *err);
 typedef int alt_odb_fn(struct alternate_object_database *, void *);
 extern int foreach_alt_odb(alt_odb_fn, void*);
 
+/*
+ * Allocate a "struct alternate_object_database" but do _not_ actually
+ * add it to the list of alternates.
+ */
+struct alternate_object_database *alloc_alt_odb(const char *dir);
+
 /*
  * Add the directory to the on-disk alternates file; the new entry will also
  * take effect in the current process.