transport: add client support for object-info

Sometimes, it is beneficial to retrieve information about an object
without downloading it entirely. The server-side logic for this
functionality was implemented in commit "a2ba162cda (object-info:
support for retrieving object info, 2021-04-20)." And the wire
format is documented at
https://git-scm.com/docs/protocol-v2#_object_info.

Introduce client-side support for the object-info capability.

Add its own function for object-info separate from existing fetch
infrastructure.

Currently, the client supports requesting a list of OIDs with the size
attribute from a v2 server. If the server does not advertise this
feature (i.e., transfer.advertiseobjectinfo is set to false), the client
returns an error and exits.

Note that:

1. The entire request is written into req_buf before being sent to the
   remote. This approach follows the pattern used in the
   send_fetch_request() logic within 'fetch-pack.c'. Streaming the
   request is not addressed in this patch.

2. A new field 'unrecognized' has been added to object_info. This new
   field is set at fetch_object_info() when the object is unrecognized
   by the server.

Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Ju <eric.peijian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Sabater <pabloosabaterr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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