 <em>&lt;path&gt;</em> is present but empty, e.g. <code>-C ""</code>, then the
current working directory is left unchanged.</p>
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<p>This option affects options that expect path name like <code>--git-dir</code> and
<code>--work-tree</code> in that their interpretations of the path names would be
made relative to the working directory caused by the <code>-C</code> option. For
example the following invocations are equivalent:</p>
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