Feature request: add a mechanism to filter in/out source files

[ghost]

When integrating this tool off-the-shelf with our build system, it has a curious problem: it tries to run clang-tidy for each of the #include-d files from our system. We do have an exclude filter in the clang tidy config itself, but that applies after clang-tidy itself runs. As a result, clang-tidy runs tens of thousands of times (once for each #include), which breaks the system.

To get around this, I added a (admittedly hacky) company-specific inclusion logic (see this PR). It works, but it's not very elegant.

Could you consider adding some kind of mechanism for the user to specify inclusion/exclusion criteria for source files? I'm exploring how to configure an aspect; if I write a PR that adds some kind of clang_tidy_source_must_include_substring option, are you amenable to adding that to the repo?

[erenon]

Hi, thanks for the report. Please share:

• Your bazel_clang_tidy commit id (make sure you are using the latest)
• Your .clang-tidy config
• An example bazel target, that reproduces the issue.

[ghost]

Your bazel_clang_tidy commit id (make sure you are using the latest)

https://github.com/stevegrossmongodb/bazel_clang_tidy_fork/commit/343245bc6156d9dd61cd8583f9c70eb9b0c06f75

Your .clang-tidy config

https://pastebin.com/bfxCV114

An example bazel target, that reproduces the issue.

To reproduce:

1. clone https://github.com/mongodb/mongo (master branch at revision e89e0a0631bbdacb74882d73bf6b2514fb5619cb)
2. Apply these diffs: https://pastebin.com/sd6PnmMU
3. Copy the .clang-tidy noted above to the root directory of the workspace
4. Run: bazel build src/mongo/db/commands:fsync_locked_with_debug --aspects @bazel_clang_tidy//clang_tidy:clang_tidy.bzl%clang_tidy_aspect --output_groups=report --@bazel_clang_tidy//:clang_tidy_config=//:clang_tidy_config --config=local