From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:19:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile
Message-ID: <xmqq4m16sm5v.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <e100d30a-5ee8-8485-5012-f9b1c6961ffa@google.com>

Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com> writes:

> On 2017-01-10 01:58, Jeff King wrote:
> ...
>> What happens in a bare repository?
>>
>> I'm guessing it's relative to the top-level of the repository,
>
> I just tried it out and it's relative to $PWD.

That is understandable.  When the user says

    $ cmd -O $file

with any option -O that takes a filename, it is most natural if we
used $PWD/$file when $file is not absolute path.