A general clang-tidy configuration file

.clang-tidy

---
Checks:          'clang-diagnostic-*,clang-analyzer-*,cppcoreguidelines-*,modernize-*,-modernize-use-trailing-return-type'
WarningsAsErrors: true
HeaderFilterRegex: ''
AnalyzeTemporaryDtors: false
FormatStyle:     google
CheckOptions:
  - key:             cert-dcl16-c.NewSuffixes
    value:           'L;LL;LU;LLU'
  - key:             cert-oop54-cpp.WarnOnlyIfThisHasSuspiciousField
    value:           '0'
  - key:             cppcoreguidelines-explicit-virtual-functions.IgnoreDestructors
    value:           '1'
  - key:             cppcoreguidelines-non-private-member-variables-in-classes.IgnoreClassesWithAllMemberVariablesBeingPublic
    value:           '1'
  - key:             google-readability-braces-around-statements.ShortStatementLines
    value:           '1'
  - key:             google-readability-function-size.StatementThreshold
    value:           '800'
  - key:             google-readability-namespace-comments.ShortNamespaceLines
    value:           '10'
  - key:             google-readability-namespace-comments.SpacesBeforeComments
    value:           '2'
  - key:             modernize-loop-convert.MaxCopySize
    value:           '16'
  - key:             modernize-loop-convert.MinConfidence
    value:           reasonable
  - key:             modernize-loop-convert.NamingStyle
    value:           CamelCase
  - key:             modernize-pass-by-value.IncludeStyle
    value:           llvm
  - key:             modernize-replace-auto-ptr.IncludeStyle
    value:           llvm
  - key:             modernize-use-nullptr.NullMacros
    value:           'NULL'
...

Hi @fbaeuerlein!
How would one integrate the config file using cmake? I have tried the following:

set(CLANG_TIDY_COMMAND ${CLANG_TIDY_EXE} "-config=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/.clang-tidy")
set_target_properties(test PROPERTIES CXX_CLANG_TIDY "${CLANG_TIDY_COMMAND}")

Apparently the config file is read, but the content does not seem to meet the format expectations:

[build] YAML:1:1: error: not a mapping
[build] C:/Data/Trainings/cpp/twoSum/twoSum/.clang-tidy
[build] ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[build] Error: invalid configuration specified.
[build] invalid argument

Thanks for helping out! ;-)

Even I need to integrate the config file using cmake.
I tried the same way using the -config flag but no luck
@DavidKroeter84 @fbaeuerlein

You can try with -config-file=<path>