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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 10:34:56 -0700
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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> writes:

> Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
> relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.

I think that has always been the case.  You can always specify it as
relative to the top.  Of course, you can use absolute.