diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 99e5c81..8b3a640 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         "build:test:watch": "tsc --watch --project config/test.tsconfig.json",
         "test:cli": "npm run ci:download-web-uis && vitest run --bail 1 --config config/vitest.config.ts",
         "commit": "cz",
-        "prepare": "test -d .git && husky install || true",
+        "prepare": "test -e .git && husky install || true",
         "release": "HUSKY=0 release-it --config config/.release-it.json",
         "postinstall": "node bin/postinstall.js",
         "generate:readme": "oclif readme && sed -i 's@/src/commands/@/src/cli/commands/@g' README.md && sed -i 's@src/commands@src/cli/commands@g' README.md",
diff --git a/test/cli/prepare-husky.test.ts b/test/cli/prepare-husky.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b81c59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cli/prepare-husky.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { directory as randomDirectory } from "tempy";
+
+// `prepare` runs `husky install`, which writes .husky/_/husky.sh. core.hooksPath lives in the
+// shared repo config, so a checkout that skips the install still runs .husky/commit-msg and every
+// commit fails sourcing the missing husky.sh. In a linked worktree .git is a file (issue #150).
+const prepareScript: string = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), "package.json"), "utf-8")).scripts.prepare;
+
+const git = (cwd: string, ...args: string[]) => execFileSync("git", args, { cwd, stdio: "pipe" });
+
+const runPrepare = (cwd: string) => {
+    const env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = { ...process.env, PATH: `${path.join(process.cwd(), "node_modules", ".bin")}${path.delimiter}${process.env.PATH}` };
+    delete env.HUSKY;
+    delete env.GIT_DIR;
+    return spawnSync("sh", ["-c", prepareScript], { cwd, env, encoding: "utf-8" });
+};
+
+// npm runs scripts through cmd.exe on Windows, where `test` is not a builtin.
+describe.skipIf(process.platform === "win32")("npm prepare script", () => {
+    const setupRepo = () => {
+        const root = randomDirectory();
+        const main = path.join(root, "main");
+        const worktree = path.join(root, "worktree");
+        fs.mkdirSync(main);
+        git(main, "init", "-q");
+        git(main, "-c", "user.name=test", "-c", "user.email=test@example.com", "commit", "-q", "--allow-empty", "-m", "init");
+        git(main, "worktree", "add", "-q", worktree);
+        return { root, main, worktree };
+    };
+
+    it("installs husky hooks in a normal checkout", () => {
+        const { root, main } = setupRepo();
+        try {
+            expect(runPrepare(main).status).toBe(0);
+            expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(main, ".husky", "_", "husky.sh"))).toBe(true);
+        } finally {
+            fs.rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+        }
+    });
+
+    it("installs husky hooks in a linked worktree, where .git is a file", () => {
+        const { root, worktree } = setupRepo();
+        try {
+            expect(fs.statSync(path.join(worktree, ".git")).isFile()).toBe(true);
+            expect(runPrepare(worktree).status).toBe(0);
+            expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(worktree, ".husky", "_", "husky.sh"))).toBe(true);
+        } finally {
+            fs.rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+        }
+    });
+});