diff -r 2245fcd0e160 -r 594ed85b6a3f mercurial/subrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/subrepo.py	Fri Dec 10 01:30:16 2010 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py	Fri Dec 10 19:08:17 2010 -0600
@@ -333,8 +333,6 @@
 
             def addpathconfig(key, value):
                 if value:
-                    if not os.path.isabs(value):
-                        value = os.path.relpath(os.path.abspath(value), root)
                     fp.write('%s = %s\n' % (key, value))
                     self._repo.ui.setconfig('paths', key, value)