Cursor persisting diff flow for old deleted files

Bug Reports
1

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

If I ask cursor to make some changes to some files, but then before acting on the diffs (keeping or undoing) I ask it to do something that involves deleting those files entirely, the diff flow for those old files still sticks around. So then I’m stuck in this weird state where the diff flow that lets you walk through file changes goes to those completely deleted files and shows their diffs from the previous request, but the files names are striken out in the tab so it knows they are deleted. I’m then stuck because if I undo or keep the changes in the deleted file, either way it brings that file back from being deleted..

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Ask agent for changes, and don’t act on diffs (don’t keep or undo)
  2. Ask agent to remove files that you changed
  3. You can see that the diffs from 1 are still in the diff flow in the IDE and you either have to keep or undo them, either of which brings the deleted file back

Expected Behavior

Diffs should be ignored for files that have been deleted in a later agent run

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.50
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 56f0a83df8e9eb48585fcc4858a9440db4cc7770
Date: 2025-12-06T23:39:52.834Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

2

Hey, thanks for the detailed report.

It seems related to a known issue with the edit confirmation UI state we’re tracking here: 2.0.48: Edit Confirmation UI Unresponsive. A similar case: "Keep All" button sometimes missing, diff/"Keep" buttons persist after commit

Please try these workarounds:

  • Accept changes via the Git panel instead of the built-in diff UI
  • Ctrl+Shift+P → Developer: Reload Window
  • Start without extensions: cursor --disable-extensions
  • In the problematic file, manually remove the highlighted blocks, save, then immediately Undo

I’ll add your case to the existing ticket. Thanks!