D7649: match: make sure `root` argument is always an absolute path

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

martinvonz added a comment.


  In D7649#112837 <https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7649#112837>, @mharbison72 wrote:
  
  > Windows has some very strange rules for paths, and I remember fixing a subrepo bug with a path in the form `C:foo`.  I tried these, and can't think of anything more we'd need to worry about.
  >
  >   >>> import os
  >   >>> os.path.isabs("/")
  >   True
  >   >>> os.path.isabs("C:/")
  >   True
  >   >>> os.path.isabs("C:tests")
  >   False
  >
  > (The last one being at the root of the hg repo.)
  
  Thanks for checking. I think that means we're okay with this series now. I won't queue it because I wrote some of it.

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