Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Do you mean just using the --no-git option to aider? Kevin
