You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Directory SyncArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.246,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Before syncing a directory, Claude Code appends a rule to the repository's attributes file turning off CRLF conversion, clean/smudge filters, ident expansion and working-tree encoding, so files are not silently rewritten in transit.
Details
The attributes file is opened without following symlinks and with a size cap.
If it is not a plain file of modest size, sync warns and continues without pinning.
Failures warn and report false rather than aborting the sync.
Evidence
dir-sync: cannot pin the checkout to unconverted line endings:
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
