I am a noob to this whole thing. New of Git, push off setting it up.
Finally want to release versions of project.
Commit a Release version and am now looking forward to using git.
Any time I click on that branch, (worse it is currently the main branch) Cursor begins running console windows in background until theres a memory leak I assume. crashing my pc.
If I end the task early enough I can stop the pc from crashing.
Then I have to reopen cursor and close the git changes that haven’t loaded and kill the task again. Then I can open Cursor without crashing the pc until I try to view that branch again.
Any help would be great. I will answer any questions you may have as quickly as I can.
Steps to Reproduce
Any time I click on that branch that has 3364 files changed and 7039 insertions(+)
Not sure how as my project shouldn’t have that many files
Expected Behavior
I am meant to see the changelog in cursor, I think…
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Hey, thanks for the report. Looks like SCM is crashing on a very large diff. Let’s narrow down the issue quickly:
Please check:
Run Cursor without extensions: from the command line, cursor --disable-extensions. Does the crash repeat?
Open CTRL+Shift+P > Developer: Open Process Explorer and take a screenshot of which process spikes (git.exe, extensionHost, Cursor.exe).
Open Help > Toggle Developer Tools and send errors from Console, plus the logs folder: CTRL+Shift+P > Developer: Open Logs Folder.
Temporary workaround: don’t open the Source Control tab for this branch; view changes via git diff in the terminal.
Check if build artifacts/large directories accidentally got into the repo (e.g., node_modules, dist, .next, etc.). If yes, add them to .gitignore and remove from index (git rm -r --cached …) to reduce the change volume.