Claude Code git workflow: commit, branch, and review with AI in your terminal

Claude Code git workflow: commit, branch, and review with AI in your terminal If you use Claude Code and git together, you're probably doing it manually — staging files, writing commit messages, switching branches by hand. Here's how to let Claude Code handle the git workflow so you can focus on the actual code. The basic pattern Claude Code can run shell commands, which means it can run git commands. The key is knowing when to ask it to. # Instead of: git add -A && git commit -m "fix: update user auth flow" # Ask Claude: "Commit the auth changes with a descriptive message" Claude will: Check git status to see what changed Stage the relevant files (not everything blindly) Write a commit message that actually describes the change Run the commit Branch management # Ask Claude to: "Create a feature branch for the payment refactor and switch to it" # It runs: git checkout -b feature/payment-refactor More usefully, when you're working on multiple tasks in parallel: # Describe the work, let