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

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> FWIW I still find that unintuitive. I know "<something>:<path>" from ssh, 
> and there it does not change meaning depending on where I am. IMHO in most 
> cases you want to use git-diff anyway, which _does_ honour the current 
> relative path.

There, its meaning is relative to where you are, namely "$HOME".

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