diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/LANG_CLANG_TIDY_EXPORT_FIXES_DIR.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/LANG_CLANG_TIDY_EXPORT_FIXES_DIR.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/LANG_CLANG_TIDY_EXPORT_FIXES_DIR.rst index 265fade..fc88f0f 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/LANG_CLANG_TIDY_EXPORT_FIXES_DIR.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/LANG_CLANG_TIDY_EXPORT_FIXES_DIR.rst @@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ absolute directory, it is assumed to be relative to the target's binary directory. This property should be preferred over adding an ``--export-fixes`` or ``--fix`` argument directly to the :prop_tgt:`<LANG>_CLANG_TIDY` property. -At generate-time, in order to avoid passing stale fixes from old code to -``clang-apply-replacements``, CMake will search the directory for any ``.yaml`` -files that won't be generated by ``clang-tidy`` during the build, and delete -them. In addition, just before running ``clang-tidy`` on a file, CMake will -delete that file's corresponding ``.yaml`` file in case ``clang-tidy`` doesn't -produce any fixes. +When this property is set, CMake takes ownership of the specified directory, +and may create, modify, or delete files and directories within the directory +at any time during configure or build time. Users should use a dedicated +directory for exporting clang-tidy fixes to avoid having files deleted or +overwritten by CMake. Users should not create, modify, or delete files in this +directory. This property is initialized by the value of the :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_CLANG_TIDY_EXPORT_FIXES_DIR` variable if it is set |