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run-tests: fix whitelist/blacklist with directories on Windows

The file name is resolved with `os.path.relpath()` in the `Test` constructor,
which yields `\` on Windows.  That doesn't match the `/` separator when using
MSYS tools to build the list, and it isn't obvious that this is the problem
because directory separators can mostly be used interchangeably.  The
`--test-list` argument already seems to be properly handled.

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.