clang-tidier 0.5.0

A simple runner for clang-tidy.

clang-tidier

A simple clang-tidy runner for C and C++ projects.

Installation

clang-tidier requires Python 3.8 or higher, as well as some version of clang-tidy visible on the system PATH.

pip3 install clang-tidier

Usage

clang-tidier is a command-line application

usage: clang-tidier [-h] [--version] [--include <regex> [<regex> ...]] [--exclude <regex> [<regex> ...]]
                    [--werror] [--threads <num>] [--session | --no-session] [compile_db]

clang-tidy runner for C and C++ projects.

positional arguments:
  compile_db            path to compile_commands.json, or a directory containing it (default: discover automatically)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             print the version and exit
  --include <regex> [<regex> ...]
                        regular expression to select source files.
  --exclude <regex> [<regex> ...]
                        regular expression to exclude source files.
  --werror              stop on the first file that emits warnings
  --threads <num>       number of threads to use.
  --session, --no-session
                        saves run information so subsequent re-runs may avoid re-scanning files. (default: True)

v0.3.0 - github.com/marzer/clang-tidier

Exit codes

Value	Meaning
0	No issues were found
N, where N is a positive integer	N issues were found
-1	A fatal error occurred

Changelog

v0.5.0 - 2025/01/27

• Added --batch x/y to enable distributed parallelism
• Minor internal fixes

v0.4.1 - 2024/11/19

• Fixed precompiled headers breaking runs in some circumstances
• Improved wording of session restart message

v0.4.0 - 2024/09/07

• Fixed sessions not restarting if .clang-tidy is modified
• Added --labels-only
• Minor performance improvements

v0.3.0 - 2024/08/04

• Added --no-session
• Added use of sessions by default

v0.2.0 - 2024/08/03

• Added --session

v0.1.2 - 2024/06/06

• Fixed build-generated translation causing 'did not exist or was not a file' errors
• Improved performance of TU enumeration step

v0.1.1 - 2024/05/16

• Fixed issues with older clang-tidy versions trying to use --use-color

v0.1.0 - 2024/05/09

• First public release 🎉️