You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
GitArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.307,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Git keeps a project's history in a hidden .git folder, and its stored data in .git/objects. Claude Code's safety check on that folder now looks at every entry inside it. It rejects any subfolder that is a symlink (a shortcut pointing somewhere else) or is oversized, with the message "symlinked or oversized .git/objects entry". Before, it checked only the objects, pack and info folders.
The list of Git settings Claude Code accepts as safe now includes patterns that depend on your operating system. The check on the submodule.*.update setting now uses a shared pattern.
Why
These are security checks on repositories. A repository that was tampered with to point Git at other files is more likely to be caught.
