--- a/mercurial/configitems.py	Tue Feb 05 21:31:33 2019 +0300
+++ b/mercurial/configitems.py	Fri Feb 01 22:28:55 2019 -0800
@@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@
     default=False,
 )
 coreconfigitem('ui', 'relative-paths',
-    default=False,
+    default='legacy',
 )
 coreconfigitem('ui', 'remotecmd',
     default='hg',