[PATCH RFC] lfs: clean up a variety of strings/bytes issues

[Matt Harbison]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:33:54 -0500, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Augie Fackler <augie at google.com>
> # Date 1548455589 18000
> #      Fri Jan 25 17:33:09 2019 -0500
> # Node ID d59571aba933f16db8e58ec9b61365ea4db0e2fa
> # Parent  ffdac0067a147f878ac45dc2c4b3b3e490865252
> lfs: clean up a variety of strings/bytes issues

I think I have this mostly stabilized now.  But I need to break it up into  
digestible chunks, and flag some things for review.  Hopefully I'll get to  
it in the next day or so.