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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by seunosewa on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:20PM (#46593708)
There's no reason why Claude can't use git to manage the folders that it controls.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by binarymax on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:42PM (#46594033)
Most of these files are binary and are not a good fit for git’s graph based diff tracker…you’re basically ending up with a new full sized binary for every file version. It works from a version perspective, but is very inefficient and not what git was built for.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by oblio on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:23PM (#46593747)
Git isn't good with big files.

I wanted to comment more, but this new tool is Mac only for now, so there isn't much of a point.

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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by Imustaskforhelp on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:28PM (#46593828)
git with lfs

There is also xet by huggingface which tries to make git work better with big files

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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by mhitza on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:54PM (#46597439)
Too hard for AI to make crossplatform tools.
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