MCP configuration file location relates to cur directory

[Phantato]

Issue

Hi all, I'm using mcp-servers-file: /path/to/mcp.json to specify mcp config of my project. The path is .vscode/mcp.json. I have the .aider.conf.yml file in my project root, i.e. the git dir.

However, when launching aider-ce in a sub-dir, it would use the relative path according to cur dir so failed to find the mcp config.

I don't know if it's a bug or is intent. For the latter one if there's any workaround to point configs relates to git dir?

Version and model info

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[dwash96]

Hmm, in this case, does prefixing the path with "../" for however many layers up to the git dir from cur dir help? Aider uses normal path traversal syntax through python's os module in most places where file systems are being directly accessed. Let me know if this does not work though, I've never actually initialized the project before in a sub directory of a git directory.

I do understand the appeal of normalizing towards the closest git directory though

[Phantato]

It do work by prefixing. However it would be hard to have a dir-local conf file for each directory in a project.

I encounter this when integrating aider-ce with emacs, which usually start the chat session from an opened file thus make cur dir be the location the file lied.

I think it'd also be handy if the path traversal is related to the conf file, since we might have multiple conf files in many spaces and it seems more straightforward while editing the config and more easy to implements rather than against closest git dir.

[dwash96]

Alright, the logic in:
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Will attempt to parse the mcp-servers-file location in the following order:

• It exists outright as an absolute or relative path
• The closest .aider.config.yml file
• The closest git directory