{"version":"2.1.251","anchor":"re-cloning-a-marketplace-will-not-overwrite-another-marketpl","canonical_anchor":"re-cloning-a-marketplace-will-not-overwrite-another-marketpl","heading":"Re-cloning a marketplace will not overwrite another marketplace","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251\/e\/re-cloning-a-marketplace-will-not-overwrite-another-marketpl","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251","markdown":"### Re-cloning a marketplace will not overwrite another marketplace\n\nRe-cloning a marketplace stops rather than overwriting another registered marketplace.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a marketplace checkout looks stale and Claude Code moves it aside to a `.bak` path before re-cloning, it now checks whether that backup path is itself a registered marketplace directory and stops with an error naming both instead of overwriting it.\n\n**Details**\n\n- runs on every marketplace re-clone recovery\n- the error names the backup directory and the marketplace that already owns it\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`the directory it would use as its backup (${O}) is the registered marketplace ${S(U)}'s directory`\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}