Am 17.11.19 um 12:07 schrieb Sivanandan Srilakshmanan: > Hi Pratyush, > > Thank you so so so very much for responding quickly. I am learning git > to assist my teams skill up on git. > > My current version is v2.23.0 which I downloaded and installed a month > ago. Nevertheless, I have downloaded and installed v2.24.0 and the > problem still persists. > > I have the following environment variable set > GIT_DIR=C:\GitRepo > GIT_HOME=C:\tools\Git Setting GIT_DIR without also setting GIT_WORKTREE is not a supported use-case. Therefore, ... > C:\test\Local_Newfeature>git branch > * Local_Kumfeature_branch > Local_MyTest_branch > + Local_Newfeature_branch > + Local_SGSfeature_branch > Local_feature_branch > > > C:\test\Local_Newfeature>git worktree list > C:\GitRepo (bare) > C:/test/Local_Kumfeature b0a097e [Local_Kumfeature_branch] > C:/test/Local_Newfeature b0a097e [Local_Newfeature_branch] > C:/test/Local_SGSfeature b0a097e [Local_SGSfeature_branch] ... this does not work as expected, .... > C:\test\Local_Newfeature>git --work-tree=C:\test\Local_Newfeature status > On branch Local_Kumfeature_branch > Your branch is up to date with 'Lakshman/feature_branch'. > > nothing to commit, working tree clean ... but this works (--work-tree is the same as setting GIT_WORKTREE). Nobody sets GIT_DIR during normal day-to-day work. Do not set it unless you know what you are doing. -- Hannes