[cfe-dev] [clang-tidy] Dealing with check names

[Piotr Padlewski via cfe-dev]

Hi,
as clang-tidy grows there are more and more checks. One of the problem I
see is that "misc" check group is not user friendly - there are many checks
that do so many different things that usually user don't want to enable
whole group.
Other groups like modernize, performance, google, cert, boost, llvm doesn't
have this problem. Naturally the solution would be to split the group into
smaller groups that would mean more.
The problem is that we should not change names because old configs will not
work.

Do you have some ideas how we could fix it, so we could make it easier for
users to use it?

Other feature that we could add if we would know how to solve it is that we
could make new groups that would mostly have aliases to other checks. This
might be specially useful for cert checks - the cert code names doesn't
tell anything, so it would be good to have these checks with proper name in
different group so normal user could see what this check is doing from name
and CERT users could run checks with cert group as it was before.


One solution that I see is to reserve old name and make redirection, and
maybe output warning about deprecated name when user would use special flag
(e.g. verbose)

What do you think about this problem?

Piotr
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