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worktree.baseRef

setting never mined documented JSON

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.

Branch new worktrees from the remote default branch or your local HEAD

Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-10-22.

First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Builds0 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v2.1.299 first named in a changelog, 14 Oct 2026

In the changelogs

2

Releases whose published page names worktree.baseRef.

  1. v2.1.300
    Claude Code now notes when a per-model auto-compact window is set

    Claude Code's list of settings in use now includes autoCompactWindow when it is set for any model under modelSettings

    found in this entry's text

  2. v2.1.299
    Clearer errors when Claude Code can't find where to start a worktree

    When creating a git worktree fails to find its starting point, Claude Code now explains why and how to fix it

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

First cited

1

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted worktree.baseRef was v2.1.299, 14 Oct 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.

ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.29914 Oct 2026To start worktrees from your current HEAD instead, set worktree.baseRef to "head" in Claude Code settings.

Presence across releases

0

The 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.

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