CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GIT
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.239 and was gone by v2.1.285.
You can set CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GIT to pick a git-based engine for syncing your directory to a cloud session.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.239.
In the changelogs
8Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GIT.
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v2.1.285
Directory sync for cloud sessions and its environment variables removed
The directory-sync machinery for cloud sessions is gone, and its
CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_*andCLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_DIR_SYNCvariables no longer do anythingfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.261
New CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GIT-gated helper for directory git-sync
An internal helper for directory git-sync is gated behind an env var whose purpose isn't stated.
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v2.1.246
Cloud directory sync is now git-only, plus a new mode for plain folders
Cloud directory sync now only does git; the per-file and archive engines are gone.
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v2.1.242
Cloud directory sync gains git and tar-archive engines beside the per-file lane
Cloud file sync gains git-bundle and tar-archive modes, but you still sync file by file.
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v2.1.242
Git-aware directory sync for cloud sessions, off unless an env var is set
A git sync engine keeps a cloud container's checkout in step with yours, off unless an env var is set.
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v2.1.239
CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GITselects a git-based engine for cloud file syncYou can set CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GIT to pick a git-based engine for syncing your directory to a cloud session.
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v2.1.239
Directory-sync anchoring can be switched off, plus seven dir-sync variables now stripped from child processes
CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_DISABLE_ANCHORING turns off path anchoring, and seven sync variables are now stripped from child processes.
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v2.1.239
Sync and hook-forwarding switches now survive into remote sessions
Seven more environment variables you export locally now carry into remote and worker processes.
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First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_DIR_SYNC_GIT was v2.1.261, 4 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
59One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the environment variable does. All environment variables.