From 82d7f04865e31bb39f6d9b04e3deea90f0933719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:37:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] handle the case of no git repo

---
 aider/main.py | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/main.py b/aider/main.py
index dab1ea1e7..23fcc1014 100644
--- a/aider/main.py
+++ b/aider/main.py
@@ -74,9 +74,12 @@ def check_gitignore(git_root, io, ask=True):
     if not git_root:
         return
 
-    repo = git.Repo(git_root)
-    if repo.ignored(".aider"):
-        return
+    try:
+        repo = git.Repo(git_root)
+        if repo.ignored(".aider"):
+            return
+    except git.exc.InvalidGitRepositoryError:
+        pass
 
     pat = ".aider*"