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run-tests: introduce a `HGTEST_REAL_HG` variable for test

It turns out that currently, `hg` and `which hg` can point to different things
because `hg` is an alias… This is annoying because script and pieces of test
are unknowingly using the wrong `hg`.

We will fix it in another changeset. However some test actually need to use a
real `hg` binary and not some `chg` or `rhg` equivalent. So we introduce a new
variable with the right value and we put it to us in the appropriate location.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11049

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.