diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index 2c2395a620..6f73a7467f 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -802,7 +802,8 @@ static void status_submodule(const char *path, const struct object_id *ce_oid,
 			 path, NULL);
 
 	git_config(git_diff_basic_config, NULL);
-	repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &rev, prefix);
+
+	repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &rev, NULL);
 	rev.abbrev = 0;
 	diff_files_args.argc = setup_revisions(diff_files_args.argc,
 					       diff_files_args.argv,
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index 691b5fc3bf..7f75bb1be6 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -356,6 +356,28 @@ test_expect_success 'status should only print one line' '
 	test_line_count = 1 lines
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'status from subdirectory should have the same SHA1' '
+	test_when_finished "rmdir addtest/subdir" &&
+	(
+		cd addtest &&
+		mkdir subdir &&
+		git submodule status >output &&
+		awk "{print \$1}" <output >expect &&
+		cd subdir &&
+		git submodule status >../output &&
+		awk "{print \$1}" <../output >../actual &&
+		test_cmp ../expect ../actual &&
+		git -C ../submod checkout HEAD^ &&
+		git submodule status >../output &&
+		awk "{print \$1}" <../output >../actual2 &&
+		cd .. &&
+		git submodule status >output &&
+		awk "{print \$1}" <output >expect2 &&
+		test_cmp expect2 actual2 &&
+		! test_cmp actual actual2
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'setup - fetch commit name from submodule' '
 	rev1=$(cd .subrepo && git rev-parse HEAD) &&
 	printf "rev1: %s\n" "$rev1" &&