Bug when starting aider about aider

[paul-gauthier]

The bug you show in your screenshots TypeError: replace() argument 1 must be str, not None is fixed in the latest version in the main branch. It's because you are running aider without providing an OpenAI API key. The fixed version will print a proper explanation of what's wrong.

But you do need to provide an OpenAI API key. Perhaps you have an aider.conf.yml file in one directory/repo but not the other?

The change is available in the main branch. You can get it by installing the latest version from github:

python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git

If you have a chance to try it, let me know if it works better for you.

[jan-koch]

The missing .aider.conf.yaml was the culprit!

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Can you share the full command line you used to invoke aider? Or even better, also share the output when you add --verbose to the command line.

[jan-koch]

This is the simple „aider“ command. Funny enough, „aider --help“ works and lists all commands.Everything else produces this error.

[jan-koch]

I think this error is related to the Github repository. Upon further inspection, it works in one branch of the repository but not in another branch.

I've tried merging the branch where aider loads into the one where aider doesn't load, but that didn't fix it.

[jan-koch]

Here's a screenshot of running aider --verbose and aider --help commands in the broken branch of the repository.

[paul-gauthier]

Are you using unusual git features, maybe like worktrees?

[jan-koch]

No. I am just using one branch for production (that's broken with aider) and one for development (thankfully aider is working there lol)

[paul-gauthier]

I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to add a comment here and I will re-open or file a new issue any time.