From: Artur Pyrogovskyi Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:47:36 GMT Subject: bug report: git status -z doesn't respect status.relativePaths=true Message-ID: 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] git version: git version 2.52.0 cpu: arm64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh rust: disabled feature: fsmonitor--daemon libcurl: 8.7.1 zlib: 1.2.12 SHA-1: SHA1_DC SHA-256: SHA256_BLK default-ref-format: files default-hash: sha1 uname: Darwin 24.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Wed Nov 5 21:33:58 PST 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69.705.2~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64 compiler info: clang: 17.0.0 (clang-1700.4.4.1) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh Artur