[PATCH] D75184: [clang-tidy] Optional inheritance of file configs from parent directories

[Dmitry Polukhin via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

DmitryPolukhin added a comment.

In D75184#2093089 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D75184#2093089>, @njames93 wrote:

> As an afterthought, Would you think it a good idea to extend this logic to the `ConfigOptionsProvider` That way you can use something along the lines of:
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>   clang-tidy --config='{InheritParentConfig: true, CheckOptions: [<Options overriding/complimenting .clang-tidy files>]}'
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> clang-tidy would then go to read the .clang-tidy configuration files in much the same was as is done here. This would let you set custom configuration options on the command line on top of whats in configuration files.
>  Obviously is `InheritParentConfig` is unset or `false` then we wouldn't go looking for .clang-tidy files.


It sounds logical. I would even extend it a little bit to allow case `--config=@filepath` where filepath file will be read and expanded as the highest priority config. @njames93 are you going to work on this?


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