Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Git IntegrationArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.280,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
Claude Code has a new internal helper for checking which files have changed in a git repository, using git diff-files and git ls-files -s -v under the hood. File paths that contain the Unicode replacement character (�), meaning they couldn't be read as normal UTF-8 text, are now pulled out and sent to git in their own separate request instead of being batched together with normal paths.
Why
File paths with unusual encodings can otherwise get garbled or mishandled when batched with normal paths, so splitting them out keeps git status checks accurate even when a repository has files with non-standard-encoded names.
