git status: use absolute paths instead of relative

Question

When I do git status, it shows files with relative paths:

modified:   foo
modified:   ../../etc/hosts

Relative paths are more unclear than absolute paths. I have to mentally retrace the path to see where the file is located.

How can I tell git to use absolute paths?

modified:   foo
modified:   /etc/hosts

UPDATE

As suggested by @LightBender, I have set relativePaths = false in my .gitconfig:

[status]
    howUntrackedFiles = all
    relativePaths = false

However, this has no effect. git status still shows relative paths as before.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the configuration section of the documentation for git-status:

You can set the configuration value status.relativePaths to false and git will display the paths relative to the project root (not the system root).

git config [--global|local] status.relativePaths true

As a side note, I tried this once and almost immediately got annoyed with having to constantly either type the magic signature for the project root (:/) at the start of every path or having to figure out which part I needed to use the path relatively in a command. Having git always present me with the path I need to use the file in a git command turned out to be preferable to me.

Answer 2

Not sure but you can try

git status --porcelain