diff --git a/docs/reference/changelog.md b/docs/reference/changelog.md
index 807a9c98..7c103af0 100644
--- a/docs/reference/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/reference/changelog.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Unreleased changes
 ### CI/CD
 
 - Review the coverage configuration in light of `covdefaults`, adopting its `assert_never` exclusion and `skip_covered` report setting, and raising all package coverage gates to 100% ({gh-pr}`390`)
+- Make the e2e path sanity check independent of the checkout directory's name, so tests can run from git worktrees ({gh-pr}`391`)
 - Bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 ({gh-pr}`368`)
 - Bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 ({gh-pr}`369`)
 - Bump sigstore/gh-action-sigstore-python from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0 ({gh-pr}`370`)
diff --git a/tests/e2e/test_examples.py b/tests/e2e/test_examples.py
index 1b41e6ee..5c428344 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/test_examples.py
+++ b/tests/e2e/test_examples.py
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@
 
 
 def test_paths_exist() -> None:
-    assert PATH_ROOT.name == "ridgeplot"
+    # Sanity check that PATH_ROOT points at the repo root, without
+    # depending on the name of the checkout directory (which differs
+    # in git worktrees and renamed clones)
+    assert (PATH_ROOT / "pyproject.toml").is_file()
     assert PATH_ARTIFACTS.is_dir()
     assert PATH_CHARTS.is_dir()