From 6156d455826ad2beb51fa20ef60888930e775b5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Williams <jeffrey.l.williams@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 10:04:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] allow template files to be specified as absolute paths (#480)

---
 lib/jsdoc/template.js        | 5 +++--
 test/specs/jsdoc/template.js | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/specs/jsdoc/template.js

diff --git a/lib/jsdoc/template.js b/lib/jsdoc/template.js
index 43356617..ade28387 100644
--- a/lib/jsdoc/template.js
+++ b/lib/jsdoc/template.js
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ exports.Template = function(path) {
     @return {function} Returns template closure.
  */
 exports.Template.prototype.load = function(file) {
-    var _path = path.join(this.path, file);
-    return _.template(fs.readFileSync(_path, 'utf8'), null, this.settings);
+    return _.template(fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8'), null, this.settings);
 };
 
 
@@ -53,6 +52,8 @@ exports.Template.prototype.load = function(file) {
     @return {string} Rendered template.
  */
 exports.Template.prototype.partial = function(file, data) {
+    file = path.resolve(this.path, file);
+
     // load template into cache
     if (!(file in this.cache)) {
         this.cache[file] = this.load(file);
diff --git a/test/specs/jsdoc/template.js b/test/specs/jsdoc/template.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79f31859
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/specs/jsdoc/template.js
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/*global describe: true, expect: true, it: true, xdescribe: true, xit: true */
+xdescribe('jsdoc/template', function() {
+	// TODO
+});