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From the docs it looks like this feature only reverts the edit tool calls, and not e.g. bash commands that have been executed:

> Checkpoints apply to Claude’s edits and not user edits or bash commands, and we recommend using them in combination with version control

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How could they possibly hope to undo bash commands, whose side effects could be anything, anywhere?

Hey Claude... uh... unlaunch those

By tracking changes made by a command, like you might with git.

And how do you propose they track those changes? Do you want to run your LLM through permanent sudo?

I mean a naive implementation of this would just make regular git commits to a special hidden repo and revert them (ignoring changes outside project root). I always assumed that’s how cursor did it. Presumably they have good reasons not to do this, probably related to not accidentally reverting user edits.

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