Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.315,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A git worktree is an extra working copy of a repository, kept in its own folder. Locking a worktree tells git not to clean it up. Claude Code locks the worktrees it uses.
Claude Code now has a second way to do this. It checks the worktree's .git files and then writes git's lock file directly, instead of running the git worktree lock command. It also records when a lock entry could not be written or did not pass its checks. A remotely controlled switch decides which way is used.
Why
Writing the file directly saves starting a separate git process every time a worktree is locked.
