From efc3c392a9441e32171536520e39fa5ce7413916 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mohammed Yasin <32206511+Y-T-G@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:50:11 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify relative path usage for `path` in dataset `yaml`
 (#18953)

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Yasin <32206511+Y-T-G@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/en/datasets/detect/index.md  | 2 +-
 docs/en/datasets/pose/index.md    | 2 +-
 docs/en/datasets/segment/index.md | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/en/datasets/detect/index.md b/docs/en/datasets/detect/index.md
index c6ea56cf..d5408112 100644
--- a/docs/en/datasets/detect/index.md
+++ b/docs/en/datasets/detect/index.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The Ultralytics YOLO format is a dataset configuration format that allows you to
 
 ```yaml
 # Train/val/test sets as 1) dir: path/to/imgs, 2) file: path/to/imgs.txt, or 3) list: [path/to/imgs1, path/to/imgs2, ..]
-path: ../datasets/coco8 # dataset root dir
+path: ../datasets/coco8 # dataset root dir (absolute or relative; if relative, it's relative to default datasets_dir)
 train: images/train # train images (relative to 'path') 4 images
 val: images/val # val images (relative to 'path') 4 images
 test: # test images (optional)
diff --git a/docs/en/datasets/pose/index.md b/docs/en/datasets/pose/index.md
index 321bb9c1..0473b310 100644
--- a/docs/en/datasets/pose/index.md
+++ b/docs/en/datasets/pose/index.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The Ultralytics framework uses a YAML file format to define the dataset and mode
 
 ```yaml
 # Train/val/test sets as 1) dir: path/to/imgs, 2) file: path/to/imgs.txt, or 3) list: [path/to/imgs1, path/to/imgs2, ..]
-path: ../datasets/coco8-pose # dataset root dir
+path: ../datasets/coco8-pose # dataset root dir (absolute or relative; if relative, it's relative to default datasets_dir)
 train: images/train # train images (relative to 'path') 4 images
 val: images/val # val images (relative to 'path') 4 images
 test: # test images (optional)
diff --git a/docs/en/datasets/segment/index.md b/docs/en/datasets/segment/index.md
index 9a954241..9f88aea3 100644
--- a/docs/en/datasets/segment/index.md
+++ b/docs/en/datasets/segment/index.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The Ultralytics framework uses a YAML file format to define the dataset and mode
 
 ```yaml
 # Train/val/test sets as 1) dir: path/to/imgs, 2) file: path/to/imgs.txt, or 3) list: [path/to/imgs1, path/to/imgs2, ..]
-path: ../datasets/coco8-seg # dataset root dir
+path: ../datasets/coco8-seg # dataset root dir (absolute or relative; if relative, it's relative to default datasets_dir)
 train: images/train # train images (relative to 'path') 4 images
 val: images/val # val images (relative to 'path') 4 images
 test: # test images (optional)