Unclear It is not stated which environment variables are kept or removed, so settings passed to ripgrep through the environment may no longer reach it.
What
ripgrep is the program Claude Code uses to search files. Environment variables are named settings that a program passes to the programs it starts. Every time Claude Code starts ripgrep, it now passes a filtered set of them instead of all of its own. This covers searches, file counts and the check that ripgrep works. That check also no longer adds Claude Code's full set of variables on top.
Other changes:
- File counting stops early for a path when that path, or a folder above it, matches a certain check.
- ripgrep output that arrives after a search was cancelled is now ignored.
Why
This looks like protection against environment variables changing how ripgrep behaves when Claude Code runs it.
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It is not stated which environment variables are kept or removed, so settings passed to ripgrep through the environment may no longer reach…