bug report: git status -z doesn't respect status.relativePaths=true

According to the man page of git-status: "-z Terminate entries with NUL, instead of LF."

However, it ignores status.relativePaths=true and always shows absolute paths.

Repro steps: $ mkdir test-repo && cd test-repo && git init . $ mkdir subdir && touch subdir/test-file.txt && cd subdir && git add test-file.txt $ git -c status.relativePaths=true status --porcelain=2 1 A. N... 000000 100644 100644 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 test-file.txt $ git -c status.relativePaths=true status --porcelain=2 -z 1 A. N... 000000 100644 100644 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 subdir/test-file.txt%

--porcelain=2 is for convenience here; the bug is present with or without it.

Here's the full bug report:

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

$ git -c status.relativePaths=true status -z

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

I expect this to show relative paths, just as this shows relative paths:

$ git -c status.relativePaths=true status

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

It shows absolute paths, not just terminating entries with NUL as manpage says.

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

I expect that when I use -z option with status, the only thing that changes is the line separator.

However, for some reason, -z also enforces absolute paths and ignores status.relativePaths option.

[System Info]
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