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subrepo: make -S work again on Windows for incoming/outgoing to remote repos

While it worked fine for the top level repo, the remote path for the subrepo got
mangled to something like "https://server/prefix\repo\subrepo", which I've seen
result in both a 400 and a 404, depending on the server.  We need to `normpath`
at least the `subpath` because of "http://user:***@localhost:$HGPORT/main/../sub"
in `test-subrepo-relative-path.t`.  Keep the `os.path` flavor for handling
filesystem based remote repos, since this string is also displayed.

This is one case where the automatic substitution of '\' for '/' and rematching
done by the test runner is unfortunate- I don't see how to write a test to catch
this.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11971

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
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to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.