You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud DiffArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.280,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The /diff view (the panel showing changed files and their edited sections, or hunks) has changed how it works in Claude Code's cloud environment. Previously, when you were on a branch with commits already made beyond the session's base branch (or the default branch), /diff only showed uncommitted working-tree changes compared to HEAD. Now it merges both kinds of changes into a single view: committed changes ahead of the base branch are shown together with uncommitted changes, with the uncommitted rows listed first.
Why
This means /diff in the cloud gives a fuller picture of everything that's changed in a session, not just what hasn't been committed yet, so you no longer need to check committed history separately to see the full scope of edits.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /diff, on Claude Code changelog.* Improved `/diff`: a scrollbar shows where you are in a long list of changed files, and long paths no longer wrap their rowschangelogsee the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /diff, on Claude Code changelog.
