diff.relative
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Diffs read from a subdirectory are no longer shortened by your git diff.relative setting.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.238.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names diff.relative.
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v2.1.260
Git diff stat/numstat calls consolidated onto a shared flag array
Git diff calls for telemetry were consolidated onto shared flags, no behavior change.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.238
Diffs are no longer truncated when run from a subdirectory
Diffs read from a subdirectory are no longer shortened by your git diff.relative setting.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.238
Change-size counts ignore your diff.relative setting
Changed-line and changed-file counts now cover the whole repo regardless of your diff.relative setting.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted diff.relative was v2.1.238, 20 Aug 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
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
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 settings key does. All settings keys.