Feature request for product/service
Cursor IDE
Describe the request
Hello!
My team has large repo and recently started leveraging worktrees to make it easier for individuals to multitask on long-lived features (examples: PR reviews that need back-and-forth; building out separate features at the same time). We use bitbucket so cloud agents aren’t accessible to us. The worktrees.json setup-worktree is perfect for fully bootstrapping an interactive instance of the codebase with a free http port and isolated database namespace.
Worktrees seem like the perfect fit. But unfortunately, Cursor’s worktree focus is on short-lived per-agent (or subagent) trees. This is confirmed by Mohit’s response on this forum post: Working with Worktrees in Cursor - #3 by mohitjain.
To use a worktree long-term, we’ve been opening a new cursor window for each worktree. This should work great, but there are problems with this use-case:
- Cursor selects “Worktree Typescript” as the language for all our ts/x files. There is no language server.
- Additionally document formatting is broken (e.g. using prettier or biome on save).
Is it possible, when opening a worktree as a project, to disable the worktree typescript language detection and instead use the default? These are only problems when cursor uses /worktree to create it in ~/.cursor/worktrees/.
We can manually create worktrees, and even prompt an agent to manually create a worktree, thereby bypassing this issue. But it would be ideal for us if /worktree would also work for this usecase.