diff --git a/assets/patches.txt b/assets/patches.txt
index 1077388..6061d13 100644
--- a/assets/patches.txt
+++ b/assets/patches.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 patches/allow-JXL-in-non-nightly-browser.patch
 patches/allow-ubo-private-mode.patch
-patches/bootstrap-without-vcs.patch
 patches/context-menu.patch
 patches/custom-ubo-assets-bootstrap-location.patch
 patches/dbus_name.patch
@@ -11,6 +10,7 @@ patches/librewolf-pref-pane.patch
 patches/librewolf-prefs.patch
 patches/mozilla_dirs.patch
 patches/msix.patch
+patches/relative-bootstrap.patch
 patches/remove_addons.patch
 patches/sed-patches/allow-searchengines-non-esr.patch
 patches/sed-patches/disable-pocket.patch
diff --git a/patches/relative-bootstrap.patch b/patches/relative-bootstrap.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb7f1e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/relative-bootstrap.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- a/python/mozversioncontrol/mozversioncontrol/__init__.py
++++ b/python/mozversioncontrol/mozversioncontrol/__init__.py
+@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ class SrcRepository(Repository):
+         """
+         res = []
+         # move away the .git or .hg folder from path to more easily test in a hg/git repo
+-        for root, dirs, files in os.walk("."):
++        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
+             for name in files:
+                 res.append(os.path.join(root, name))
+         return res
+@@ -841,7 +841,9 @@ class SrcRepository(Repository):
+         import fnmatch
+ 
+         files = list(
+-            p.replace("\\", "/").replace("./", "") for p in self.get_files(path) if p
++            (os.path.relpath(p, path)).replace("\\", "/")
++            for p in self.get_files(path)
++            if p
+         )
+         files.sort()
+         ig = self.git_ignore(path)