Re: git ls-files -X option is relative to repo root

Hi Junio, Thanks for the info and backstory. I didn't realize that the paths in the file specified by --exclude-from would be relative to the project root. That makes my original use case kind of silly (it's a long story, but I was curious which files were ignored by a subset of my .gitignore fi

git ls-files -X option is relative to repo root

I encountered some unexpected behavior with Git today and was hoping to either a) clear up my misconception or b) make a bug report. My question deals with the --exclude-from option to git-ls-files. It appears that paths passed to this option are relative to the root of the repository, not your c