From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:15:03 GMT
Subject: How is git diff --relative supposed to work?
Message-ID: <f1cd3ca7-9b31-45b0-b990-05f4d1f6b4f2@kdbg.org>

Try this in your favorite repository:

$ echo foo >> Makefile
$ git -P diff --name-only --relative=Ma
kefile

This doesn't look right. Shouldn't the path specified with --relative be
interpreted as a directory instead of an arbitrary textual prefix?

-- Hannes