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backup: fix issue when the backup end up in a different directory

Because of store encoding, we might end up with the backup in a different
directory than the initial copy (for example if the backup path make it cross
the 120 char limit).

This can create crash, especially since 6.4 where backup are used during revlog
split.

Making sure the directory exists fixes these crash We added a test covering this
case.

Strictly speaking, this has always been broken, however the new code in 6.4
triggers it more easily.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.