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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: `git log relative_path_to_object` does not respect the
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:56:12 -0700
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Hi Roberto,

Roberto Eduardo Decurnex Gorosito wrote:

> When passing objects to the `git log`, by just naming them or using
> the `--objects` option, relative paths are evaluated using the current
> working directory instead of the current working tree path.

Why should they be relative to the worktree root?  When you use
relative paths within a worktree, they are not relative to the
worktree root.  For example, the following works within a clone of
git.git:

	$ cd Documentation
	$ git log git.txt

You might be looking for 'git -C <directory>', which chdirs to the
named directory so paths are relative to there.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan