<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/77341>77341</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            clang-tidy fails to parse config files silently, even with --verify-config.
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            clang-tidy
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          knjmooney
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    If you have an invalid clang-tidy config file, clang-tidy carries on silently and uses the default configuration settings. I've encountered this in several projects where there is a typo in the clang-tidy config file, which results in the default config being used.

With verify-config, the errors are reported, but it eventually claims "No config error detected" and sets a successful exit code.

```
 -> clang-tidy-17 --version 
Ubuntu LLVM version 17.0.4
  Optimized build.

 -> echo "This is not a valid clang-tidy file" > .clang-tidy 
 
 -> clang-tidy-17 --verify-config && echo PASSED || echo FAILED
/tmp/test/.clang-tidy:1:1: error: not a mapping
This is not a valid clang-tidy file
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Error parsing /tmp/test/.clang-tidy: Invalid argument
/tmp/test/.clang-tidy:1:1: error: not a mapping
This is not a valid clang-tidy file
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Error parsing /tmp/test/.clang-tidy: Invalid argument
No config errors detected.
PASSED
```

</pre>
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