Added --restore-chat-history

HISTORY.md

@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 
 # Release history
 
-### main
+### v0.35.0
+
+- Aider now uses GPT-4o by default.
+  - GPT-4o tops the aider LLM code editing leaderboard at 72.9%, versus 68.4% for Opus.
+  - GPT-4o takes second on aider's refactoring leaderboard with 62.9%, versus Opus at 72.3%.
   
 - Restores prior chat history on launch, so you can continue the last conversation.
 

aider/args.py

@@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ def get_parser(default_config_files, git_root):
         default=default_chat_history_file,
         help=f"Specify the chat history file (default: {default_chat_history_file})",
     )
+    group.add_argument(
+        "--restore-chat-history",
+        action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction,
+        default=False,
+        help="Restore the previous chat history messages (default: False)",
+    )
 
     ##########
     group = parser.add_argument_group("Output Settings")

aider/coders/base_coder.py

@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ class Coder:
         cur_messages=None,
         done_messages=None,
         max_chat_history_tokens=None,
+        restore_chat_history=False,
     ):
         if not fnames:
             fnames = []
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ class Coder:
         self.summarizer_thread = None
         self.summarized_done_messages = []
 
-        if not self.done_messages:
+        if not self.done_messages and restore_chat_history:
             history_md = self.io.read_text(self.io.chat_history_file)
             if history_md:
                 self.done_messages = utils.split_chat_history_markdown(history_md)

aider/main.py

@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ def main(argv=None, input=None, output=None, force_git_root=None, return_coder=F
             voice_language=args.voice_language,
             aider_ignore_file=args.aiderignore,
             max_chat_history_tokens=args.max_chat_history_tokens,
+            restore_chat_history=args.restore_chat_history,
         )
 
     except ValueError as err: