`--check` prefixed every path with the repository root unconditionally, so
passing an absolute path produced a bogus `$root//abs/path`, cp failed, and
the subsequent cmp reported the file as non-conforming. The exit status
happened to be 1, which looked correct while being reached for the wrong
reason.
In-place mode was unaffected -- it cds to the root and hands the list
straight to Emacs, where absolute paths resolve normally, which is why the
pre-commit hook worked.
Normalize both the copy and the compare through an abspath helper so
relative and absolute paths behave identically in either mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Andrew Kesterson
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