Bug report : git-status manual fibs about semantics of --porcelain

The 1.7.5.1 manual says:

     --porcelain::
    	Give the output in a stable, easy-to-parse format for scripts.
    	Currently this is identical to --short output, but is guaranteed
    	not to change in the future, making it safe for scripts.

However, this is not actually true. --porcelain differs from --short in at least two ways, one of them significant.

--short is colorized when color.status = auto, while --porcelain is not.

More importantly, --short reports file paths relative to the current directory, while --porcelain reports file paths relative to the root of the repository.

All of this was the case in 1.7.0.4 also, and presumably the versions in between.

Mark Jason Dominus 	  			                 mjd@plover.com