Describe the Bug
It looks like cursor is performing git indexing once every 5 minutes, which takes (on my setup) ~40 seconds.
While this is happening, seems like a lot of actions just freeze, including:
- formatting code actions
- since I have format on save set up - it means that saving is frozen as well
- cursor tab completion
- regular syntax competion
- cursor chat
- go to definition
I would love for a way to disable the indexing (tried setting "cursor.general.gitGraphIndexing": "disabled" in settings.json, but it does not seem to work)
Steps to Reproduce
My setup is a multi-directory workspace, im pretty sure it should be reproduced with any multi directory workspace of a project of a respectable size
After more research, it seems unrelated to the multi-directory, but instead to the fact that my project has a large git history, I was able to bypass the issue by setting the first project in my workspace to a different, small git project, so it would be scanned instead, but that is not a real solution
Expected Behavior
Ideally - it wont freeze the whole IDE, but the option to disable it / change the cadence would be highly appreciated in the meantime.
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.2.1 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0
Date: 2025-07-03T06:08:06.355Z (4 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0
Additional Information
Here are the logs from the “Cursor Git Indexing” output
2025-07-07 14:51:07.920 [info] doUpdate: Disposing completed index job...
2025-07-07 14:51:07.920 [info] MultiBranchIndexJob dispose
2025-07-07 14:51:07.920 [info] Aborting multi-branch indexing job.
2025-07-07 14:51:44.722 [warning] Multi-workspace indexing is not supported yet; indexing only the first workspace: /Users/ofek/workspace/elementary_workspace/elementary-internal
2025-07-07 14:51:44.891 [info] Doing a startup handshake for git indexing.
2025-07-07 14:51:45.167 [warning] PR indexing denied by server: This feature is still rolling out and will be available soon.
2025-07-07 14:51:45.167 [error] Error during indexing setup: This feature is still rolling out and will be available soon.
The freeze happed (in this case) from 14:51:07 to 14:51:45
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor