I'm not sure what the general consensus is regarding the use of "head" vs. "HEAD" on case insensitive filesystems, but it appears that some confusing behavior (bug?) may have arisen. To summarize, "HEAD" and "head" may resolve to different revisions when in a worktree. The following example was generated using git version 2.13.1 for Mac (HFS+): $ git --version git version 2.13.1 $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ken/Desktop/test/.git/ $ echo "Hello" > hello.txt $ git add . && git commit -qm "Add hello." $ echo "Bye" > bye.txt $ git add . && git commit -qm "Add bye." Note that at this point, both HEAD and head (correctly) resolve to the same revision: $ git rev-parse HEAD 4a71a947fb683698f80f543f9cd27acd066e2659 $ git rev-parse head 4a71a947fb683698f80f543f9cd27acd066e2659 However, if we create (and cd into) a worktree based on "master~", "HEAD" and "head" resolve to _different_ revisions: $ git worktree add -b feature/branch ../branch master~ Preparing ../branch (identifier branch) HEAD is now at f752545 Add hello. $ cd ../branch/ $ git rev-parse HEAD f7525451640f6f5e8842cc00b6639c80558dd6c2 $ git rev-parse head 4a71a947fb683698f80f543f9cd27acd066e2659 $ git rev-parse master 4a71a947fb683698f80f543f9cd27acd066e2659 $ git rev-parse master~ f7525451640f6f5e8842cc00b6639c80558dd6c2 $ git rev-parse feature/branch f7525451640f6f5e8842cc00b6639c80558dd6c2 Note that "HEAD" resolves to the same revision as "master~" and "feature/branch" (which seems correct since that is what the worktree was based on), while "head" resolves to the same revision as "master". This appears to affect other case-insensitive filesystems (Windows) as well. See the following bug report: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1225 I'm not sure if the behavior is well-defined when using "head", but the above example may illustrate a case where users should not assume that they resolve to the same thing. Thanks.
