Aider

Aider

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plaintext may hold secrets · personal data · source code

Aider writes chat history into the working directory, where it frequently lands inside a git repository.

Where it lives

all ~/Projects/**/.aider.chat.history.md
all ~/projects/**/.aider.chat.history.md
all ~/Code/**/.aider.chat.history.md
all ~/code/**/.aider.chat.history.md
all ~/src/**/.aider.chat.history.md
all ~/dev/**/.aider.chat.history.md
all ~/work/**/.aider.chat.history.md

What you can do

Add .aider.chat.history.md and .aider.input.history to your .gitignore.
For projects outside the common code roots, run a scan with --path <dir>.

This describes where Aider stores data. Metadata only, never your content. Confidence: unverified. Spot a mistake? Tell us.