Aider scatters config and cache files everywhere
Aider scatters config, cache, and history files across the home directory and project root, cluttering both.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 23 August 2023 · last reported 13 January 2025
What's going wrong
Aider, an AI coding assistant that runs in the terminal, writes its settings, chat history, and tag cache as dotfiles in the home directory and the root of each project.
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