[cfe-dev] Integrating clang-based refactoring tools into IDEs - best practices?

[Maurizio Vitale]

I'm curious. How is the integration of clang-tidy with the review tool
working?
Something that is run automatically before the reviewer even sees the code
or something that is run on-demand, suggestion-by-suggestion?
Do the clang-tidy changes stay in the same CL or are separate CLs generated
and submitted automatically?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:07 PM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
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>> In article <CAOsfVvnRwj36LrGnCRv4y7hi9S+ioEzyJNxaEc=
>> aM-WmLNDrHA at mail.gmail.com>,
>>     Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> writes:
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>> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
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>> > > Every time I've asked about where to put refactoring tools, I'm always
>> > > told "clang-tidy",
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>> > I'd fine that very curious... (when I say refactoring I usually mean
>> > "Fowler-style")
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>> Ah, so you're thinking of very general refactorings like Extract
>> Method, Inline Method, etc.  Over the years I've written up some
>> refactorings in Fowler style that are specific to C/C++:
>> <https://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/category/refactoring/
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>> The refactorings I've been doing in clang-tidy are maybe what you
>> would call "micro refactorings":
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>> if (b == true) => if (b)
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>> ...and yet, these sorts of things are *very* useful from an IDE.  Yes,
>> you can run clang-tidy and mark these as "fixups" that are available
>> by applying the suggested patch from clang-tidy, but both the micro
>> refactorings and the Fowler style ones seem like they'd be better off
>> in a library that was invoked in a shorter turnaround cycle from an
>> IDE.  Do you agree?
>>
>> clang-tidy is batch oriented.  IDEs are interactive.
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> I think that's not true in general. clang-tidy, the command line tool, in
> its current form is batch oriented. I don't think there's a generic
> limitation to integrate clang-tidy into IDEs (we integrate it into our code
> review tool for example).
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