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run-tests: enforce the drive letter from `getcwd` to upper case

For some reason os.getcwd() can return either `c:` or `C:` depending of which
binary you used on Windows.  We normalize this to `C:` and the like. This fix
`test-run-tests.t` on windows as the drive letter in "$TESTTMP" was "wrongly"
set to 'c:/' if the test path wasn't explicitly specified.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11035

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.