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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: something fishy with Git commit and log from file
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:38:04 -0700
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Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> So definitely a Git bug! Can be reproduced with:
>
>    $ mkdir repo && cd repo
>    $ git init
>    $ mkdir dir
>    $ cd dir
>    $ echo file > file
>    $ echo log > log
>    $ git add file
>    $ git commit --file=log
>    fatal: could not read log file 'log': No such file or directory

Try it without cding down to "dir".