Prompt the user to install Git on fresh installs

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Fresh installs of Windows that don’t have git installed should prompt the user to install git. Currently the “Clone repo” button just does nothing, its not greyed out, clicking it just does nothing.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. fresh install of windows with no git installed
  2. download cursor
  3. try and figure out how to get the agents window to go away since cursor seems to have removed that setting again
  4. once in IDE mode, click “clone repo”
  5. nothing happens because git is not installed.

Expected Behavior

Cursor should show an error message or something to the effect of “you need to download git if you want to do that”

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.13.25 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 31e8d61c448c7472e371505838a0fe34083dad50
Date: 2026-07-28T06:17:45.069Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

For AI issues: which model did you use?

N/A

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the detailed report. I reproduced it. On a clean Windows install without Git, the Clone repo button really does nothing with no message. The only clue is command 'git.clone' not found in the devtools console. There shouldn’t be any prompt or error, I agree it’s confusing, and showing a message about installing Git makes sense. I’ve reported this internally, but I can’t share a fix timeline yet.

Workaround for now: install Git from git-scm.com and restart Cursor. After that, the button should work normally.

Also about step 3 (agents window and the missing layout setting), that’s a separate issue and not related to this bug. If you start a new thread and share which exact setting you can’t find and which version it was in, I’ll take a closer look.