WIP as I still need to test this properly with MSVC.

Feel free to release 1.6 :)

In D23680#530484, @smartins wrote:

Looks fine!

Since you're the copyright holder, would you agree to an eventual clazy copyright change to something BSD style ?

In D23870#530232, @smartins wrote:

do you have commit rights ?

Also handles the case now where no file is specified on the cmd line.

Rebased only.

Rebased only.

Side note: How to tell "arc" to update the commit message, too?

Changed the cmd line option name.

In D23680#525384, @smartins wrote:

In D23680#524825, @nkosjar wrote:

Should this option consider the checks provided with "-checks="? That would be in line with clang-tidy and would allow IDEs to query the checks enabled by default (providing -meta-checks but no -checks=).

Honoring -checks= would also mean that available_categories in checks.json needs to be adapted accordingly. That is, this patch would not only dump the compiled in string, but read the json, and filter it.

Maybe rename to -supported-checks-json , doesn't matter if it's too long, it's for IDE consumption only.
And, as the name suggests, it will print all supported checks.

Something that honours -checks can be orthogonal and be in another option. Also note that the CLAZY_CHECKS env var also influences the checks that are used.
Does this second option even need to be json based ? it can just output the list of enabled checks, and then you can cross-reference with the json you already have

In D23680#525362, @smartins wrote:

In D23680#524517, @nkosjar wrote:

I'm not sure whether "-meta-checks" is descriptive enough. Can't come up with a better name right now. Suggestions?

How do I run the tests properly? I've tried running tests/run_tests.py from the build dir, but this results in many errors...

cd tests/ && ./run_tests.py should work
also works in the build dir
maybe it's not finding the plugin for you

Should this option consider the checks provided with "-checks="? That would be in line with clang-tidy and would allow IDEs to query the checks enabled by default (providing -meta-checks but no -checks=).

I'm not sure whether "-meta-checks" is descriptive enough. Can't come up with a better name right now. Suggestions?