From 41e6fb961b1b94d72a1efbbe593a970bdcd1451b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 09:35:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat: disable watch-files by default and update help text

---
 aider/args.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/args.py b/aider/args.py
index 8d4c62f9f..971f3c5cb 100644
--- a/aider/args.py
+++ b/aider/args.py
@@ -532,8 +532,8 @@ def get_parser(default_config_files, git_root):
     group.add_argument(
         "--watch-files",
         action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction,
-        default=True,
-        help="Enable/disable watching files for external changes (default: True)",
+        default=False,
+        help="Enable/disable watching files for ai coding comments (default: False)",
     )
     group = parser.add_argument_group("Fixing and committing")
     group.add_argument(