On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Create a single source of truth for agent instructions in > > Documentation/AI/main.md with symlinks for all major coding > > agents: > > - CLAUDE.md (Claude Code) > > - .github/copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot) > > - .cursorrules (Cursor) > > - .codeium/instructions.md (Codeium) > > - .continue/context.md (Continue) > > - .windsurfrules (Windsurf) > > - .aider.conf.yml (Aider) > > This doesn't work for aider, probably because the .md it links to is not > YAML. When I start aider with this, I get: > > aider: error: Couldn't parse config file: while scanning a simple key > in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 3, column 1 > could not find expected ':' > in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 4, column 1 > > Not related to this series, but related to aider... I'm curious if > anyone has got aider to work with the kernel repo. It seems to have > problems with large repos. When starting in the kernel, I get: > > Unable to list files in git repo: cannot close exported pointers exist > Is your git repo corrupted? > Unable to read git repository, it may be corrupt? > cannot close exported pointers exist > > but neither claude nor gemini-cli have any problems with the same repo. > > The aider FAQ[1] mentions using .aiderignore to ignore parts of the > repo, but even with an "ignore everything" rule, I get the same error, > so something seems wrong with aider and large repos. It worked for a bit for me, but then aider fell over after a while and refused to run with errors accessing git. Some suggestions to repack the repo didn't help. In the end, I just ran it without any git awareness. Rob
