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## Features
* Chat with GPT about your code
* Make changes, improvements, and bug fixes to your code
* Automatically commit changes to a Git repository
* Colorized output for better readability
* Supports multiple source code files
* Chat with GPT about your code by specifying a set of source files to discuss
* Request changes, improvements, and bug fixes to your code
* Aider will apply the edits suggested by GPT.
* Aider will automatically commit each change to a git repo with a sensible commit message, providing safety, edit history and easy undo with normal git tools
* Live, colorized, human friendly output
* Can make coordinated changes across multiple source files
* Readline style chat input history, with autocompletion of tokens found in source files being discussed
## Installation
1. Clone the repository.
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Replace `<file1>`, `<file2>`, etc., with the paths to the source code files you want to work on.
You can also use additional command-line options to customize the behavior of the tool. For more information, run:
You can also use additional command-line options to customize the behavior of the tool. For more information, run `aider --help`. Many defaults can be set with `.env` or environment variables, see the help output.
## Limitations
Aider basically requires GPT-4 for the main chat functions.
You can invoke it with `aider -3` to try using gpt-3.5-turbo, but it will almost certainly fail to function correctly.
GPT-3.5 is unable to follow directions and generate code changes in a stable, parsable format.
Aider also can only edit code that can fit in the context window.
For GPT-4 that is 8k tokens.
If you have access to gpt-4-32k, I would be curious to hear you experiences using it with aider.
```
python -m aider.main --help
```