What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) /tmp$ mkdir -p gb/a gb/b /tmp$ cd gb/a /tmp/gb/a$ git init r Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/gb/a/r/.git/ /tmp/gb/a$ cd r /tmp/gb/a/r$ touch x /tmp/gb/a/r$ git add x /tmp/gb/a/r$ git commit -am . [main (root-commit) 6323b04] . 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 x /tmp/gb/a/r$ git branch foo /tmp/gb/a/r$ git worktree add ../r.foo Preparing worktree (new branch 'r.foo') HEAD is now at 6323b04 . /tmp/gb/a/r$ -r cp ../* ../../b/. -bash: -r: command not found /tmp/gb/a/r$ cp -a ../* ../../b/. /tmp/gb/a/r$ cd ../../b/r /tmp/gb/b/r$ git worktree repair ../r.foo repair: gitdir incorrect: /tmp/gb/a/r/.git/worktrees/r.foo/gitdir repair: .git file incorrect: /tmp/gb/a/r.foo /tmp/gb/b/r$ cat .git/worktrees/r.foo/gitdir /tmp/gb/a/r.foo/.git /tmp/gb/b/r$ cat ../r.foo/.git gitdir: /tmp/gb/a/r/.git/worktrees/r.foo /tmp/gb/b/r$ cat ../../a/.git/worktrees/r.foo/gitdir cat: ../../a/.git/worktrees/r.foo/gitdir: No such file or directory /tmp/gb/b/r$ cat ../../a/r/.git/worktrees/r.foo/gitdir /tmp/gb/b/r.foo/.git /tmp/gb/b/r$ cat ../../a/r.foo/.git gitdir: /tmp/gb/b/r/.git/worktrees/r.foo /tmp/gb/b/r$ What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) I expected "/tmp/gb/b/r$ git worktree repair ../r.foo" to alter the repositories it was run from, ie those under the directory "/tmp/gb/b". What happened instead? (Actual behavior) "/tmp/gb/b/r$ git worktree repair ../r.foo" modified the repositories under the directory "/tmp/gb/a". [System Info] git version: git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146) cpu: arm64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Darwin 23.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Mon Jul 29 21:14:21 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.141.2~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64 compiler info: clang: 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /opt/homebrew/bin/bash -- Regards, Russell Stuart