Git MCP Server

• Access commit history, branch information, and repository status
• Read files from any commit, branch, or tag
• Search through commit messages, file contents, and repository structure
• Compare changes between commits, branches, and files
• Work with different branches and track changes
• Safe exploration without making changes

The official Git MCP Server from Anthropic provides comprehensive tools to read, search, and manipulate Git repositories through Claude.

• Analyze commit patterns and development history
• Understand code evolution over time
• Examine specific commits and their changes
• Compare different versions of files
• Search for commits mentioning specific topics
• Generate repository documentation

• Read-only access to repositories
• Works with local Git repositories only
• No remote operations performed
• Safe exploration without making changes
• Respects existing file permissions

• Ensure you're in a Git repository directory
• Check that Claude has read access to repository files
• Verify Git is installed and accessible from command line
• Restart Claude Desktop after configuration changes

• Show me the recent commit history
• What branches exist in this repository?
• Find commits mentioning bug fix
• What changed in the last 5 commits?
• Compare this file between two commits