Re: GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess <id@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This seems to make it basically impossible for any program that wants to
> > use GIT_INDEX_FILE to use anything other than an absolute path;
> > there are too many configurations to keep straight that could change how
> > git interprets what should be a simple relative path to a file.
> 
> Thanks for digging.  Perhaps this needs to be documented (not "in
> this case it is take as relative to that, in this other case, ...",
> but "you cannot rely on relative being relative to something you
> think").

Documenting it that way feels like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel it should be made consistently relative to top of work tree.

Seems fairly unlikely that any scripts driving git rely on it
being relative to the pwd when GIT_WORK_TREE etc is set.

(I'd prefer relative to pwd because that is much more sane IMHO, but
making that change is more likely to break something.)

-- 
see shy jo

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