Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
WindowsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.285,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code's list of git settings it pays attention to now includes longpaths, alongside hookspath and untrackedcache. On Windows, Claude Code can also call a Windows system function, NtQueryDirectoryFile, which reads the contents of a folder.
Why
On Windows, how Claude Code lists folders and handles very long file paths may change.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear what Claude Code does with the longpaths setting or the new folder-listing function.
