Cursor git changes sometimes never completes until restart

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Sometimes, when a git repository is opened and I go to the changes tab in the primary panel, cursor becomes stuck scanning the git repositories forever.

Steps to Reproduce

Open a git repository in cursor and go to the changes tab in the primary panel.

Expected Behavior

The scanning should eventually finish and display the git state in the primary panel.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.4.31 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3578107fdf149b00059ddad37048220e41681000
Date: 2026-02-08T07:42:24.999Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Additional Information

I have to restart cursor to get the changes to show properly when this happens.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue. We’ve seen similar reports starting in version 2.2.x:

To debug your specific case, could you share:

  1. View > Output, select “Git” from the dropdown, then copy the logs starting from when Cursor launched.
  2. Does the issue happen when launching with extensions disabled? From a terminal: cursor --disable-extensions
  3. Does the same repo open in VS Code on the same machine without any issues?

Also worth checking: is the repo very large, and do you have any network or mounted drives in your user home directory?

Let me know what you find from the checks above.