What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) 1. I have a script which creates a git worktree and checks out a few files from the master branch 2. When this script runs "stand alone" - everything works fine 3. When this script runs from a "pre-commit" hook it fails with an error: "fatal: Unable to create '/tmp/wt-1/.git/index.lock': Not a directory" The content of the script is (simplified example): git worktree add /tmp/wt-1 master --no-checkout --detach cd /tmp/wt-1 git checkout master . What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) I would expect the script to run just fine as part of the pre-commit hook What happened instead? (Actual behavior) An error about .git not being a directory is shown What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? An error instead of completing successfully Anything else you want to add: Please review the rest of the bug report below. You can delete any lines you don't wish to share. [System Info] git version: git version 2.39.0 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Darwin 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Wed Aug 10 14:25:27 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.141.5~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 compiler info: clang: 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh [Enabled Hooks] pre-commit