Getting BadObject error when running Aider about aider

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue. My best guess is that something was corrupt about your git repo. The fact that it works with a fresh clone of the repo seems to support that.

Unfortunately, it's not wise for aider to catch and ignore this error. It's happening while aider is trying to get the list of all the files in the repo, which it needs to operate. If the repo is damaged to the point where it can't list the files, aider should probably not try and proceed.

[avi-cenna]

Thanks for your response. I found that my issue was indeed related to corruption in my repo. Here is what I did to resolve my issue, without have to do a fresh clone of the repo.

1. Run git fsck --full
   When I ran this, I noticed several dangling commit or dangling blob messages.
2. Run git gc --prune=now
   This cleared the issues identified in step 1 above.

Aider is now working for me again; I will close this issue.