{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"checkpoint-commits-use-a-temp-index-and-disable-split-index","canonical_anchor":"checkpoint-commits-use-a-temp-index-and-disable-split-index","heading":"Checkpoints can keep their working files out of your git folder","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/checkpoint-commits-use-a-temp-index-and-disable-split-index","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### Checkpoints can keep their working files out of your git folder\n\nClaude Code's git checkpoints can now build their file index in a temporary folder and turn off git's split-index feature\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code saves checkpoints, which are snapshots of your files it can go back to, using git. To do this, it builds an index, git's list of files being recorded. Before, that index was always written inside your repository's git folder.\n\nNow:\n\n- the index can be built in a temporary folder instead\n\n- checkpoint commands run with `core.splitIndex=false`, which turns off git's split-index feature\n\n- Claude Code's own temporary folders are left out when it lists untracked files\n\n**Why**\n\nThis keeps checkpoint files from cluttering your git folder and avoids problems in repositories that use git's split-index feature.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}