From 40da942bfeef4703263e440972e39f82b235b428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul Gauthier (aider)" <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 08:25:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: add expanduser() to properly handle tilde in paths

---
 aider/main.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/aider/main.py b/aider/main.py
index 064fd4fa4..5b85ed88c 100644
--- a/aider/main.py
+++ b/aider/main.py
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ def main(argv=None, input=None, output=None, force_git_root=None, return_coder=F
     fnames = [str(Path(fn).resolve()) for fn in all_files]
     read_only_fnames = []
     for fn in args.read or []:
-        path = Path(fn).resolve()
+        path = Path(fn).expanduser().resolve()
         if path.is_dir():
             read_only_fnames.extend(str(f) for f in path.rglob("*") if f.is_file())
         else: