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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Documentation: git-rev-parse: clarify that --git-dir
 does not necessarily show relative paths
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 04:31:59 -0500
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Jon Seymour wrote:

> --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
> @@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ shown.  If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
>  
>  --git-dir::
>  	Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to
> -	the .git directory, relative to the current directory.
> +	the .git directory. The path shown, when relative, is
> +	relative to the current working directory.
>  +
>  If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory
>  is not detected to lie in a git repository or work tree

Thanks for taking care of it.

I suppose I'd have used a subject line like the following for
brevity.

	rev-parse doc: --git-dir does not always show a relative path

For what it's worth, with or without that change,
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>