act --help not working when not in project root and the a push-triggered workflow has a call to a local WF

[tomsit-ionos]

given

• $PROJECT is the git project root
• .github/workflows/foo.yaml containing:

  jobs:
    cd:
      uses: ./.github/workflows/build-service-image.yaml

• current dir is $PROJECT/bar

when

act --help

then

$ act --help
INFO[0000] Using docker host 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock', and daemon socket 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock' 
Error: stat $PROJECT/bar/.github/workflows: no such file or directory

expected

act --help should always work independent of any setup problems that might exist