Cause (Documented platform behavior): Claude Code refuses to run repo-defined filter drivers (shell commands anything could have written) during worktree creation.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Other error fragments:
- The repository git config defines a filter driver whose name cannot be neutralized (contains "=" or a newline)
- The repository git config has a conditional include (includeIf)
- Git was not run: the repository's own git config sets
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Troubleshooting 'Git LFS files are pointer files in a worktree Claude Code created' with the four refusal messages and fixes; behavior since v2.1.247.
Search phrasings: claude code worktree LFS pointer files; agent worktree git lfs not downloaded; claude worktree includeIf error
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- LFS-tracked files contain pointer text in the worktree; builds fail on binary assets; or no worktree is created.
- Context
- Product: Claude Code Component: Worktree creation / filter driver neutralization Operation: --worktree or subagent isolation in repos using git lfs install --local Affected versions: v2.1.247+ skips repo-local filter drivers Environment: repos with LFS filter configured in .git/config Trigger: git lfs install --local (filter in repo .git/config) or includeIf / lfs.customtransfer settings in repo config.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Could not read the repository git config to neutralize filter drivers
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Claude Code worktrees] Git LFS files are pointer files in a worktree Claude Code created (repo-local filter drivers skipped since v2.1.247); worktree creation refused with 'The reposito
Recommended action: Run git lfs pull inside the worktree, or configure LFS globally (git lfs install); move includeIf/LFS program settings to global config.
Option: git lfs pull in worktree [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: LFS repos
Steps:
1. cd <worktree>
2. git lfs pull
Expected: Real files materialize
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 03414ee9-4597-4641-9b3d-881b558085f0
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Run git lfs pull inside the worktree, or configure LFS globally (git lfs install); move includeIf/LFS program settings to global config. Option: git lfs pull in worktree [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: LFS repos Steps: 1. cd <worktree> 2. git lfs pull Expected: Real files materialize
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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