You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
File SyncArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.282,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When Claude Code uploads your repository for a cloud session, it also captures work you have not committed yet. Some older tools recorded a folder in git in a format that git can still read but no longer writes, for example with entries out of order or an unknown file mode.
If capturing your work runs into such a folder, the upload now fails with a specific explanation. The message tells you to commit a change in that folder and try again. Before this change, this failure produced a general message saying that setting your work aside had failed.
Why
If your repository was written by older tools, you now get an error that tells you what to do.