Efim Goncharuk <efimster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Starting from git v.2.13.0 onwards (v 2.12.2 works fine) > > git reset --hard with --work-tree and --git-dir options does not move HEAD to hash/tag specified. HEAD remains on same position. > > Example: > >> git --work-tree=lib/core --git-dir=lib/core/.git/ reset --hard 0.1.0 > > > Note: > on another hand >> git -C lib/core reset --hard 0.1.0 ... "works", I presume. Thanks for a report. A quick bisection points at f57f37e2 ("files-backend: remove the use of git_path()", 2017-03-26), which is not unexpected. I didn't dig further and do not expect have time to do so myself for some time, though.