[llvm-dev] clang-tidy makes review a pain

[Nathan James via llvm-dev]

For the record the warning about turning `auto *X` into `const auto *X`
shouldn't be emitted, The check was adapted so that warning should no
longer be emitted in llvm code. 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8a68c40a1bf256523993ee97b39f79001eaade91

I can only guess that the pre-merge build bot is using an old build of
clang-tidy as that commit should be in the 11.0.0 release.

~Nathan James

On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 09:43 +0000, Maxim Kazantsev via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>  
> I started noticing that lately we’ve improved reporting from clang-
> tidy, pointing out at various formatting issues. However the more
> verbose it becomes, the more annoyed I feel about it. For example
> here:
>  
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D100721
>  
> It complains literally about every second line, inserting its
> comments straight into review. They take as much space as the actual
> code. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s really hard to me to understand
> what the patch is actually doing with so many inlined auto-generated
> comments. Maybe there is a button to hide them somewhere, but I
> failed to find it.
>  
> I understand what was the intention, and clang-tidy is a cool thing
> in general, but it’s getting too intrusive. Does anyone else have the
> same problem as I do? If there’s a lot of people whom it annoys,
> maybe we should think how to make it less invasive. Maybe it should
> put these comment when the patch gets approved, or something like
> this.
>  
> Thanks,
> Max
>  
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