How to modify Aider with Aider?

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Issue

I'm adding a feature to Aider using Aider. I cloned the main branch and started working on it locally. Once I thought it was ready to test I created a separate conda environment and installed a development version there so I could modify it quickly. When I use the "real" aider to edit my local files, pip updates all my envs to point to the local file. The Aider blog says Aider wrote a large portion of it's own files. What do you do to isolate a "functional" Aider program from the dev version so you can work on it?

Version and model info

Aider v0.43.5dev Windows 11 using separate conda environments to isolate versions of Aider