[cfe-dev] [clang-tidy] Headers taken into account

[Alexander Droste via cfe-dev]

Thanks for the explanation.

-Alex

On 06.11.16 22:27, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> On 6 November 2016 at 20:53, Alexander Droste via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> I'd like to know how Clang-Tidy actually determines which headers are taken
>> into account. When I invoke the following command in an out-of-source build,
>> 'run-clang-tidy.py -fix -checks='-*,modernize-*' -header-filter='.*' -p=.'
>> with 'build/debug' being pwd, all headers contained in '../../src/**' are
>> taken into account. Does Clang-Tidy look for '.h,.hxx,etc.' pairs matching a
>> .cpp or does it look for all headers in folders that contain source files?
>
> run-clang-tidy.py runs clang-tidy over all the files in a compilation database.
> clang-tidy checks those files and everything they #include.
>