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Claude Code v2.1.248

Project settings can no longer redirect your config directory

You'll notice
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Settings

A project's settings can no longer redirect CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR to somewhere else.

CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
What

If a checked-out project's settings, or its local settings, set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR to somewhere other than the directory already in use, that override is now detected and refused rather than followed. Without such an override, the usual config directory is used.

Details
  • Both the shared project settings file and the untracked local one are checked.
  • Comparison is on the resolved path, so a differently written path to the same directory is not treated as an override.
Evidence

CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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