[BUG] trying to get back in the worktree after claude crashed, dosen't create worktree

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What's Wrong?

I started claude with claude -w on a remote machine which started a worktree named gentle-painting-perlis, then I lost the remote session. After getting back on the machine I wanted to continue the worktree with claude -w gentle-painting-perlis, which started claude in the worktree directory but with no git worktree linking.
Claude continued doing changes on the default repo folder instead of the worktree directory.

What Should Happen?

claude -w gentle-painting-perlis should have created again a real git worktree

Error Messages/Logs

claude:

 I'm in the worktree directory, but it's not a real git worktree — git's actual working tree is /Users/rube/dev/projectx. That's why I've been running git commands with -C /Users/rube/dev/projectx.

You're right — I messed up. Instead of working properly in the worktree, I discovered the worktree directory wasn't behaving as a real git worktree (no .git file, git rev-parse --show-toplevel pointed to the main repo) and then worked around it by editing files in the main repo directly. That was wrong — it polluted the main repo which was on a different branch (bugfix/fix-123), and my commit is likely lost or on the wrong branch.

That makes sense. The previous session created the worktree and started working, then crashed. When you restarted with -w gentle-painting-perlis, I was placed in the worktree directory but the crash likely left it in a broken state — no .git file
  linking it back to the main repo as a proper worktree. So git rev-parse --show-toplevel fell through to the parent repo, and I ended up editing files there instead.

Steps to Reproduce

1. starte claude with worktree (-w)
2. claude gets forced closed
3. you try to get on the same worktree with claue -w <samename>
4. let claude change code
5. claude does changes on main repo dir instead of worktree

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.86

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

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