config: can't read empty confg

[krhubert]

Issue

Steps to reproduce

touch ~/.aider.conf.yml
cd repo/
aider

Error

aider: error: The config file doesn't appear to contain 'key: value' pairs (aka. a YAML mapping). yaml.load('/home/user/.aider.conf.yml') returned type 'NoneType' instead of 'dict'.

Version and model info

aider 0.75.2

[voxmenthe]

I had this same issue, but once I put the .aider.conf.yml file with the right name into the location it expected, and made sure it had at least one setting it worked.

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Is there a reason you want to launch aider with an empty config file?

[krhubert]

Is there a reason you want to launch aider with an empty config file?

No really, I found the same workaround as @voxmenthe pointed and also I switched to using cli flags.

The story full story: I tested aider and I set only one value subtree-only: true. Later when I worked with a different repo I commented this line out and got the error.