On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:10:54AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > We do support non-absolute paths, both in alternates files and > > environment variables. It's a nice feature if you want to have a > > relocatable family of shared repositories. I'd imagine that most cases > > start with "../", though. > > Yes. I was only talking about the environment variable, as you can > tell from my mention of "colon" there. Right, but we also support relative paths via environment variables. I don't think that changes the conclusion though. I'm not convinced relative paths via the environment aren't slightly insane in the first place, given the discussion in 37a95862c (alternates: re-allow relative paths from environment, 2016-11-07). And they'd probably start with "../" as well. -Peff