adding file by absolute name -- problem

When I give absolute pathname /a/b/repo/d to git add, it mostly does not work. I get errors from git-add. Is it by design ?

(When I cd to repo and fo 'git-add d', it works. But 'git-add `pwd`/d' gives error. I use scrits that wrap git-add and give it mostly absolute names, and they fail).

Besides, I get infinite loop in git-add (1.5.1.1) when several absolute names are given to git-add. I am trying to investigate it

Yakov