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Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
In the Git repository, I ran
echo tig > pattern-file &&
echo git > xdiff/pattern-file &&
cd xdfiff &&
git grep -f pattern-file
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
Git grep -f to read the pattern-file, in the xdiff directory and
search for lines matching `git` in the xdiff directory.
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
Git grep -f reads the filename, relative to the Git root and searches
for lines matching `tig` in the xdiff directory.
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
The file that Git grep uses for patterns is read relative to the root
of the Git repository, and not the current directory.
Anything else you want to add:
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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.42.0
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
uname: Linux 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27
02:56:13 UTC 2023 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 11.4
libc info: glibc: 2.35
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash
