.git folder staged by running 'git add .'

[vekazt]

Describe the bug
Claude called git add ., which resulted in the .git folder itself being added to git

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Get Claude to call git add . (this can happen in multiple ways, so not 'exact steps')

Expected behavior
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Logs
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`git status
On branch main
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/main' by 2 commits.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)

Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git restore ..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: ./.git/config
modified: ./.git/index
modified: ./.git/logs/HEAD
`

Additional context
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[hesreallyhim]

Can you provide more context? There may be many ways to get Claude to run git add . but why not share at least one of the scenarios that caused this issue for you? The more detail the better.

git is designed to ignore the .git directory by default. Even if I go into a local .git/config and manually change it, that change will not show up if I run git status or git diff. Without further information, it sounds like you (or Claude) got yourselves into a "bad situation" with the repository you're working in. It's very difficult to diagnose this issue with the context that you have provided.

• Can you share the recent parts of (or, possibly, the entirety of) the conversation that led up to this point?
• It seems like certain files inside .git/ were modified - can you share the result of git diff so we can see what the modifications are?
• Can you share the output of git config --list --show-origin? This would indicate if git is utilizing some other configuration files than the default one.
• With the respect to the "log" can you share the actual content of the little dropdown view that opens when Claude uses MCP and which shows what the MCP server is doing? Again, this might help diagnose the issue.
• Does this happen in all repos for you? In just one? In multiple?

Without more information, it will be hard to offer you much help.

[soichisumi]

git is designed to ignore the .git directory by default. Even if I go into a local .git/config and manually change it, that change will not show up if I run git status or git diff.

Theoretically yes, but I also faced this issue two times.
Both times it happened when I gave the following input.

[olamedia]

just met this issue. did undo to 5 commits up to committed .git folder, copied backup of files, then did hard reset to last commit before .git appears in log, replaced files from backup and committed again, but well, lost history.

[niksite]

It was not git add. It was the git_add command of the mcp-server-git tool. Maybe we need to update the issue title. And yeah—it adds everything—.git, .venv, etc.

[Yash121l]

Looked into this. The cause was git_add calling GitPython's repo.index.add, which walks the tree in Python and does not know about .git or .gitignore. Main already switched to repo.git.add, so the reported behaviour is gone, but a ["."] special case from the workaround is still there and there was no test. Opened #4799 to remove it and add a regression test.