Generate and Execute Complex Git Commands with Cursor Composer in the Terminal
When you're in the terminal and know what you want to do but don't quite know how to get it done, Cursor can help you.
Here we'll demo to complex git commands that I would normally have to research and look up flags for but by articulating what I want to cursor, it writes the command for me.
For example, I want to get all the files staged for commit and sort them by number of lines affected. Within seconds, Cursor will generate:
git diff --cached --numstat | sort -rn
[00:00] Can also use command k in the terminal to execute commands you would have no idea how to write otherwise. Command k, get all of the files staged for commit, and sort them by the number of lines affected. We'll paste that in, hit submit, it'll generate the command, then I can hit command enter to run the command and see the proper output. Now beyond git [00:19] diff, I would have had to look up all of the flags beyond this. We can try something even more difficult with command k, get all of the changes staged for commit, find the word choice and the line number where it's listed, and put that into a human readable format, then write all the results out to a file called stage choices dot txt, and then open [00:39] that file using Versus Code or in my case, Cursor. So you use Cursor instead of the Code CLI tool. And now we can see how it handles something that I would call really complex and I would have no idea how to write just from typing it out. So let's command enter to run this, and we can see the file in [00:59] here where it has every line that has the word choice in it.