[clang-tools-extra] Add ability to pass in a clang-tidy config file to clang-tidy-diff (PR #75721)

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Author: Chris Apple (cjappl)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

I found this handy for situations where you want to pass in a config file and not rely on a default `.clang-tidy` file.


The new option is `-config` and will expect something that can be passed into the `--config-file=` parameter of `clang-tidy`

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75721.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/tool/clang-tidy-diff.py (+8) 


``````````diff
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/tool/clang-tidy-diff.py b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/tool/clang-tidy-diff.py
index 8817e2914f6e25..fdaf1a4330e060 100755
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/tool/clang-tidy-diff.py
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/tool/clang-tidy-diff.py
@@ -223,6 +223,12 @@ def main():
         default=[],
         help="Load the specified plugin in clang-tidy.",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-config",
+        dest="config",
+        default=None,
+        help="Specifies a clang-tidy config file"
+    )
 
     clang_tidy_args = []
     argv = sys.argv[1:]
@@ -309,6 +315,8 @@ def main():
 
     # Form the common args list.
     common_clang_tidy_args = []
+    if args.config is not None:
+        common_clang_tidy_args.append("--config-file=" + args.config)
     if args.fix:
         common_clang_tidy_args.append("-fix")
     if args.checks != "":

``````````

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75721