Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:15:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Richard Hansen [off-list ref] writes:
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I think so.  (For bare repositories anyway; non-bare should be
relative to GIT_WORK_TREE.)  Perhaps git_config_pathname() itself
should convert relative paths to absolute so that every pathname
setting automatically works without changing any calling code.

Yes, that was what I was alluding to.  We might have to wait until
major version boundary to do so, but I think that it is the sensible
way forward in the longer term to convert relative to absolute in
git_config_pathname().

Yeah, I'd agree.

I'm undecided on whether it would need to happen at a major version
bump. ...

So I dunno. I do hate to break even corner cases, but I'm having trouble
imagining the scenario where somebody is actually using the current
behavior in a useful way.

Thanks for a detailed analysis (I probably should have spelt them
out when I said "we might have to" to save you the trouble).