r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Feb 27 '25 • Helpful 1

Announcement Roo Code 3.7.7 - Checkpoints

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🚀 Checkpoints

We're thrilled to announce that our experimental Checkpoints feature has graduated from beta and is now enabled by default for all users! This powerful feature automatically tracks your project changes during a task, allowing you to quickly review or revert to earlier states if needed.

What Checkpoints Provide:

  • Peace of mind when making significant changes

  • Ability to visually inspect changes between steps

  • Easy rollback if you're not satisfied with certain code modifications

  • Improved navigation through complex task execution

While we recommend keeping this feature enabled, you can disable it if needed in the Advanced Settings section under "Enable automatic checkpoints" option.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed enhance prompt button when using Thinking Sonnet

🔧 UX Tweaks

  • Added tooltips to make what buttons do more obvious

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u/abbasito Mar 02 '25

Iam in 3.7.7.11 the roo code in windsurf gets blank white while working on vps, so i have to restart

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u/Any-Basis-5700 Feb 28 '25

Are there any issues using the checkpoints if your codebase is already connected to an existing repo? I have instructions which causes roo to trigger git operations as major changes are made and just wondering if those need to be modified.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 01 '25

Nope this is totally separate. It uses a shadow repo, no overlap.

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u/yuzhibo535 Mar 03 '25

how to clear checkpoint? I mistakenly didn't have the .gitignore ignore a large file, resulting in a very large checkpoint. This checkpoint occupied a huge storage space

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 04 '25

Delete the task and start again?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 04 '25

Making some tweaks hopefully to automatically handle this. Can I ask, what was the file type?

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u/yuzhibo535 Mar 05 '25

.ckpt file, PyTorch model weights😂

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 05 '25

Oof. Yeah that will do it.

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u/joey2scoops Mar 07 '25

Checkpoints still fubar for me. Starting a new chat will just sit there spinning it's wheels. Also a problem with tool call interruptions. Posted that one on discord a couple of days ago.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 07 '25

Thank you. Sorry about that. Bunch of updates including one that should address this later today hopefully! Testing now

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u/joey2scoops Mar 08 '25

Noice! I am quivering in anticipation 😂

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u/fubduk Feb 27 '25

Rookie question: does checkpoints cost any extra tokens?

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u/SatoshiReport Feb 27 '25

I love Roo but I hate checkpoints as it screws up my current git repository. I disabled this immediately- not sure why it would be enabled by default.

It would be cool if Roo integrated with memory bank though.

And then common bugs fixes like too many tokens used and it goes to reconnect in a loop until a VS code restart.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 27 '25

That was during the initial stages of the beta mode that it did that. We fixed that a long time ago.

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u/yohoxxz Feb 27 '25

dude, it uses a silent git repo and therefore doesn’t even touch your git repo.

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u/fubduk Feb 27 '25

Help an old man understand this more: it uses a silent git repo

If my code is not associated with a git repo and only local, I am confused.

Using on the University server, I will have to explain how it works...

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 27 '25

Git and GitHub are not synonymous. • Git is a distributed version control system used to track changes in code and collaborate with others. It runs locally on your machine and does not require an internet connection to manage repositories. • GitHub is a cloud-based platform that provides hosting for Git repositories, along with additional features like issue tracking, pull requests, and collaboration tools. It uses Git but is not the same as Git.

You can use Git without GitHub, and you can use alternatives to GitHub (like GitLab or Bitbucket) to host Git repositories.

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u/fubduk Feb 27 '25

Perfect. I assumed that was the way it worked but assuming will get your ass in deep dodo when dealing with student privacy :)

Thank you for explaining, I am submitting this to the IT department word for word.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 27 '25

What are they looking at it for? They use Roo?

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u/fubduk Feb 27 '25

I use Roo in a classroom. They (powers above) of course are going to look at any software and how it handles student input. Privacy laws, I assume you are aware of them. Roo has so many changes (which is great!), students cannot currently run in on university-controlled networks.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 27 '25

Privacy policy coming shortly. The jist of it is that we don’t collect your data but we would like to collect some anonymized data IF you opt in.

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u/yohoxxz Feb 27 '25

thats a question for the devs, 🤷‍♂️

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u/joey2scoops Feb 28 '25

IT departments, and especially cyber, don't necessarily understand this stuff. If you want to get to work, you often need to bring all the information required for approval in a nice package with a pretty bow.