Cursor is sluggish when typing git commit message in the sidebar

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When I start typing a commit message in the source control thing in the sidebar the text takes a bit long to appear.

When I type normally in a file it’s acting normally.
Weirdly enough opening the process explorer fixes the sluggishness “Developer: Open Process Explorer”.

Steps to Reproduce

Open cursor
Click the Message field in git source control panel.
Start typing.

Expected Behavior

Normal typing

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.6.12
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 1917e900a0c4b0111dc7975777cfff60853059d0
Date: 2026-03-04T21:41:18.914Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.4.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, that’s an interesting bug, especially the detail about Process Explorer. That’s a good clue for debugging.

A couple things to start with:

  1. Try launching Cursor with extensions disabled from the terminal: cursor --disable-extensions. If the lag goes away, it’s caused by one of the extensions.

  2. Before opening Process Explorer, check it and note which processes are using the most resources, especially extensionHost and ptyHost. A screenshot from there would be really helpful.

  3. Does this happen in a small test repo, or only in your main project?

Let me know what you find.

  1. It’s happening with extensions disabled as well.
  2. How am I supposed to check it before opening it?
    As a side note—after closing the process explorer the lag does not reappear until I close and open cursor completely (or maybe after just leaving it for a while I’m not sure.)
  3. It happens way less in a small repo, but there is still a bit of lag.

I’m actually experiencing the same issue, however on Windows 11 Subsystem (WSL)

These are my findings:

  1. It still happens with all extensions disabled (same)
  2. Not sure if this is helpful


3. Seems to happen on any size workspace (same)

Ditto.

+1 still noticing this issue

Same for me

I encountered the same issue.
The problem arose after updating to the latest version.
As a temporary fix, I downgraded back to version 2.5 and resolved the issue.

I noticed this was fixed in the previous update. In the latest update I installed today it has regressed again.

The folly of vibe coding I guess.

I’m also experiencing this issue.

Yeah same issue, it lag so much that it is becoming unusable…

Same issue for me, so laggy.

Same issue for me.

same issue for me, incredibly laggy.

anyone know a fix yet?

opening the command palette before typing in a commit message seems to fix it

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bump. same for me. as Ciaran has mentioned above - opening command palette fix it

The same is happening to me in Ubuntu with Cursor version 2.6.21 (fea2f546c979a0a4ad1deab23552a43568807590, x64). I can confirm opening the command palette fixes it.

Hey everyone, we’re aware of the bug and the team’s on it. The regression is noted too.

For now, there’s a working workaround: before typing the commit message, open the Command Palette with Cmd+Shift+P or Ctrl+Shift+P. You can close it right away. After that, the lag goes away until the next Cursor restart.

More details and discussion of the same bug are here: Commit message box lagging - #4 by celestialorb.

We’ll update this thread once there’s a fix.

+1 on Macbook M1 Max

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The Whole Cursor IDE UI freezes on typing into the git commit changes text box.

Steps to Reproduce

  • File->open Folder->open some folder which contains a git repo
  • make some code changes
  • open the git changes tab in the main side bar
  • start typing a commit message

After a few characters, the ui completely hangs. No more characters appear, chats progress is not displayed (if any running), interaction with the ide is impossible. After a few seconds, all typed characters appear and also other areas of the ui refresh (like chats).

Expected Behavior

ui should not hang on text input

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Linux

Version Information

bug started to appear somewhere around Version: 2.6.19

currently confirmed in

Version: 3.0.9
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 93e276db8a03af947eafb2d10241e2de17806c20
Date: 2026-04-03T02:06:46.446Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.5.0-35-generic

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue