Re: [PATCH] Make Git accept absolute path names for files within the work tree

Robin Rosenberg [off-list ref] writes:

Maybe we should have a boolean indicating whether the arguments refer
to filespecs or not to make this clear or rewite the mingw fallouts in
some other way.

I wondered the same, but my vote would be to make them separate
functions.  You would need a function to abstract out pasting of paths
to ease MinGW people even without this "ah absolute -- let's make it
relative to work tree first" hack, anyway.