Customize @Git Diff Base Branch

Feature Requests
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Cursor’s current @Git options allows two types of diff:

  1. Diff with Main Branch
  2. Diff of Working State

In our team, we have a development branch that’s different from main branch.
And we regularly create pull requests to this development branch instead of main.

So, we feel the need to be able to tag a “Diff with Custom Branch”, so that we can specify which branch to be used as base branch instead of always using main.
That way, we can ask the LLM to review only the diff with our development branch.

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This would be very helpful. Also, we need to have a diff for staged changes (what we are about to commit). Doing a AI Review for staged changes is something that a developer could use before commiting the changes.

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Our team has run into the same issue. Our main branch is not our working development branch, it is our release branch. Comparing against it is often unhelpful. The Git context is good, but it doesn’t provide enough options to be really useful. To be most helpful it should include:

Diff with branch X
Staged Changes

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This would be amazing! More broadly, I often use the changes between (diff?) view in cursor to see changes. The workflow (with gitlens) looks something like:

  1. select original branch for compare
  2. compare with selected (on my active branch)
  3. view the diff
  4. ask chat to summarise my changes and write an MR (i want to be able to @ the diff in this step)
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