Hi Junio, On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > How long has "rev-parse --git-path" been around? Had scripts in the > wild chance to learn to live with the "output is relative to the top of > the working tree" reality? I think the answers are "since 2.5" and > "yes". Correct. And the third question is: How did the scripts work around this feature? The answer is obvious: by switching back to `$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/filename`. This is literally on what I spent the better part of Wednesday. There is just no way you can "fix" this otherwise. As an occasional shell scripter, you may be tempted to use `$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)$(git rev-parse --git-path filename)`, but of course that breaks in worktrees and if you do not use worktrees you would not even know that your workaround introduced another bug. The current handling of --git-path is just plain wrong. The fact that I am the first person to report this here merely shows how much it is used in the wild. Ciao, Johannes