Re: [RFC v3 3/3] diff: Add diff.orderfile configuration variable

> Path-like parameters and values given by the end user should be
> relative to the directory where the end user is (i.e. both -O
> parameters in the above example name docs/orderfile).  All Git
> processes, even the ones that are capable of being run from a
> subdirectory, are supposed to first chdir to the top level of the
> working tree before doing anything else, and adjust the path-like
> things they get from the end user from the command line accordingly.
> By the time diffcore_order() to prepare_order() callchain is called,
> we certainly should have passed that chdir already, so the value of
> the option needs to be prepended with the "prefix" when parsed.
>
> The value specified for the diff.orderfile configuration can just be
> a path relative to the top level of the working tree, I think.