def is_explicitly_rooted(path):
    """Return whether a relative path is explicitly rooted relative to the
    cwd, rather than starting off immediately with a file or folder name.

    It's nice to have paths start with "./" (or "../", "../../", etc.) so, if a
    user is that explicit, we still find the path in the suffix tree.

    """
    return path.startswith(('../', './')) or path in ('..', '.')