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

[Malcolm Parsons via cfe-dev]

On 12 December 2016 at 21:56, Piotr Padlewski via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Is LLVM style guide so special that no one can use it outside of LLVM? LLVM
> specific checks would still be visible and would do the same thing, but they
> would be links to more generic checks that people outside could use.
> Or maybe you prefer to put iit-namespace-comment,
> myawesomecompany-namespace-comment etc. LLVM is not the only one project
> that uses namespace comments.

We already have google-readability-namespace-comments and
llvm-namespace-comment checks, that configure the same check in
different ways.

I don't know why Google don't use .clang-tidy to configure generic
checks how they want them.

-- 
Malcolm Parsons