Richard Hansen <hansenr@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 2017-01-10 01:58, Jeff King wrote:
> ...
>> What happens in a bare repository?
>>
>> I'm guessing it's relative to the top-level of the repository,
>
> I just tried it out and it's relative to $PWD.
That is understandable. When the user says
$ cmd -O $file
with any option -O that takes a filename, it is most natural if we
used $PWD/$file when $file is not absolute path.