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tests: stabilize `test-transaction-wc-rollback-race.t` on Windows

MSYS has a tendency to munge C:\Dir\SubDir\File into C:DirSubDirFile unless it
is quoted, and that's what was happening here- there were a lot of these
failures:

    file not created after 5 seconds: $TESTTMP/transaction-waiting

I suspect quoting is only needed in the hook script that is generated (the
catting of the log file pointed me in the right direction here), but I missed a
spot and trial and error got me here.  The quoting elsewhere doesn't harm
anything and it was taking 7+ minutes to run this test when things were timing
out, so I don't feel like reducing the quoting to the minimum required.

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