Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds

[izbyshev]

BPO	32256
Nosy	@abalkin, @vstinner, @merwok, @izbyshev, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-32256: Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds #4760 [3.7] bpo-32256: Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds (GH-4760) #9992 [3.6] bpo-32256: Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds (GH-4760) #9993

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title = 'Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds'
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[izbyshev]

Despite some steps made in bpo-9860 make patchcheck still doesn't work for out-of-tree builds because it runs git and hg in the current directory instead of the source directory (msg169465).

[izbyshev]

Any objections to the PR?

[vstinner]

New changeset aa95bfb by Victor Stinner (Alexey Izbyshev) in branch 'master':
bpo-32256: Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds (GH-4760)
aa95bfb

[miss-islington]

New changeset 1662bbf by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-32256: Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds (GH-4760)
1662bbf

[miss-islington]

New changeset 42c52a9 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6':
bpo-32256: Make patchcheck.py work for out-of-tree builds (GH-4760)
42c52a9

[vstinner]

Thanks Alexey Izbyshev!

[izbyshev]

Thank you for testing and merging, Victor!