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If I tell Claude to "revert that last change, it isn't right, try this instead" and Claude hasn't committed recently it will happily `git checkout ...` and blow away all recent changes instead of reverting the "last change".

(Which, it's not wrong or anything -- I did say "revert that change" -- it's just annoying. And telling `CLAUDE.md` to commit more often doesn't work consistently, because Claude is a dummy sometimes).

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I haven't tried it, but theoretically one could use Claude Code's hooks facility to enforce committing at some determined thresholds.

I use it (with jj but should be the same with git). It tells Claude to commit after every Write tool use. It's a bit to small steps but I then usually just squash them afterwards. I haven't yet found a good automatic heuristic for when to tell Claude to commit (or directly auto-commit, but I like that Claude writes the commit message)

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