# Bug: Paths are wrong when --work-tree is an ancestor path

1 messages from 2025-06-16 to 2025-06-16. Participants: Serdar Sanli.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/63654

## Serdar Sanli, 2025-06-16 19:36

Subject: Bug: Paths are wrong when --work-tree is an ancestor path
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I have /tmp/dir1/foo.txt and /tmp/dir2/foo.txt and a repo at
/tmp/dir2/path/to/repo

From the repo if I do `git --work-tree /tmp/dir1 status` I see
`foo.txt` listed as an untracked file, as expected.
But if I do `git --work-tree /tmp/dir2 status`, I see
`../../../foo.txt` shown instead, rather than `foo.txt`.

Can't see anything relevant in worktree documentation, this looks like a bug?

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