If I modify a text file in my editor, and then ask aider for an edit, aider uses the old text

[DinoChiesa]

Issue

I modified the HTML for an angular component, to remove a comment that I thought was not helpful. I saved the file but did not commit the change.

Then I asked aider to make a change to that same html. aider used the old (committed) version of the html file, not the version I just modified.

aider came up with this diff initially:

And that didn't work, so it had to try again, finally coming up with this diff:

This worked, but... it took an extra cycle and maybe an extra 15-20 seconds. Am I doing it wrong? Do I need to commit every change before asking aider to do anything else?

Thanks.

Version and model info

Aider v0.81.2
Main model: gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 with diff-fenced edit format
Weak model: gemini/gemini-2.0-flash
Git repo: .git with 72 files
Repo-map: using 4096 tokens, auto refresh

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Aider always uses the latest copy of the files from the filesystem, as of the moment you press ENTER to send your message. You do not need to commit for aider to pick up changes.

Are you sure you and your editor actually saved the edited file to disk? Before you pressed ENTER?

[DinoChiesa]

I'm pretty sure, yes. Your response has me questioning my interpretation of what happened. I'll take more care to record exactly what I see next time.