diff --git a/match.go b/match.go
index 69fcd05..71176e0 100644
--- a/match.go
+++ b/match.go
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ func (p pattern) match(testPath string) (bool, error) {
 	// Normalize Windows-style path separators to forward slashes
 	testPath = filepath.ToSlash(testPath)
 
+	// Paths are relative to the repository root, so "./foo" is the same as "foo"
+	testPath = strings.TrimPrefix(testPath, "./")
+
 	if p.leftAnchoredLiteral {
 		prefix := p.pattern
 
diff --git a/testdata/patterns.json b/testdata/patterns.json
index 1006cea..d4cc9c3 100644
--- a/testdata/patterns.json
+++ b/testdata/patterns.json
@@ -331,5 +331,21 @@
          "vllm/v1/worker/^cpu": true,
          "vllm/v1/worker/cpu": false
       }
+   },
+   {
+      "name": "paths with leading dot-slash",
+      "pattern": "/foo/",
+      "paths": {
+         "./foo/bar": true,
+         "./bar/foo/baz": false
+      }
+   },
+   {
+      "name": "anchored wildcard pattern with leading dot-slash path",
+      "pattern": "/src/*.go",
+      "paths": {
+         "./src/a.go": true,
+         "./lib/src/a.go": false
+      }
    }
 ]
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