New Environment Variables / Claude Code v1.0.49

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11 Jul 2025 · 10 entries, this one is #9.

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envCLAUDE_CODE_GIT_BASH_PATH
Windows only: path to the Git Bash executable (bash.exe). Use when Git Bash is installed but not in your PATH. If the path doesn't exist or the file isn't named bash.exe, sh.exe, bash, or sh, Claude Code ignores the variable and auto-detects Git Bash as if it were unset, logging a warning visible with --debug. Before v2.1.219, Claude Code exited at startup when the path didn't exist, and used any existing file as the shell without checking that it was bash or sh. See Windows setup
envCHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING
Read by the bundled chokidar file-watcher library when a watcher is created, overriding the usePolling choice the watcher was created with. true or 1 forces polling instead of native file events, false or 0 turns polling off, any other non-empty value turns it on and an empty value turns it off (case-insensitive).
envCHOKIDAR_INTERVAL
Read by the bundled chokidar file-watcher library when a watcher is created. A non-empty value is parsed as an integer and replaces the polling interval in milliseconds the watcher was created with (library default 100). It only takes effect for watchers that poll, and binary files keep their separate binaryInterval.

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