existing folder contents overridden when `/add dirname/` in `aider --yes` about aider

[VictorBargains]

Possibly unrelated... maybe another thing to smooth over?

aider --yes tests/* *.py
tests/__pycache__ is a directory, not provided alone.
Provide either a single directory of a git repo, or a list of one or more files.  

it worked to do tests/*.py instead but maybe this kinda thing can just be ignored and the other files can still be loaded?

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

I can not reproduce this error:

$ aider --yes

No git repo found, create one to track GPT's changes (recommended)? y
Git repository created in the current working directory.
Added .aider* to .gitignore
Aider v0.35.1-dev
Models: gpt-4o with diff edit format, weak model gpt-3.5-turbo
Git repo: .git with 0 files
Repo-map: using 1024 tokens
Use /help to see in-chat commands, run with --help to see cmd line args
──────────────────────
> /add subdir/

No files matched 'subdir/'. Do you want to create /Users/gauthier/tmp/subdir-bug/subdir? yes
/Users/gauthier/tmp/subdir-bug/subdir: is a directory
Unable to read /Users/gauthier/tmp/subdir-bug/subdir
──────────────────────
> /exit

$ ls -l subdir/
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 gauthier  staff  0 May 16 08:58 file-in-subdir.txt

The fact that you got a PermissionError also makes me think aider wasn't able to do anything to your tests/ folder. Aider doesn't ever try and delete files.

Are you able to reproduce this bug?

[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.