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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> (a) In a bare repository, I believe setup.c:setup_git_directory_gently()
>> determines the prefix to be NULL.  This means my patch will see
>> ALL paths as absolute,  except :../path which will result in an error.
>
> My point was that it feels inconsistent to take the current path into 
> account in one case, but not in the other.

I do not understand your reasoning.  In a bare repository you
cannot even be in a subdirectory to begin with.