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+# Clang tidy lints for Nix
+
+This is a skeleton of a clang-tidy lints library for Nix.
+
+Currently there is one check (which is already obsolete as it has served its
+goal and is there as an example), `HasPrefixSuffixCheck`.
+
+## Running fixes/checks
+
+One file:
+
+```
+ninja -C build && clang-tidy --checks='-*,nix-*' --load=build/libnix-clang-tidy.so -p ../compile_commands.json --fix ../src/libcmd/installables.cc
+```
+
+Several files, in parallel:
+
+```
+ninja -C build && run-clang-tidy -checks='-*,nix-*' -load=build/libnix-clang-tidy.so -p .. -fix ../src | tee -a clang-tidy-result
+```
+
+## Resources
+
+* https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/code-quality/static-analysis/writing-new/clang-query.html
+* https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LibASTMatchersReference.html
+* https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/exploring-clang-tooling-part-3-rewriting-code-with-clang-tidy/
+
+## Developing new checks
+
+Put something like so in `myquery.txt`:
+
+```
+set traversal     IgnoreUnlessSpelledInSource
+# ^ Ignore implicit AST nodes. May need to use AsIs depending on how you are
+# working.
+set bind-root     true
+# ^ true unless you use any .bind("foo") commands
+set print-matcher true
+enable output     dump
+match callExpr(callee(functionDecl(hasName("hasPrefix"))), optionally(hasArgument( 0, cxxConstructExpr(hasDeclaration(functionDecl(hasParameter(0, parmVarDecl(hasType(asString("const char *"))).bind("meow2"))))))))
+```
+
+Then run, e.g. `clang-query --preload hasprefix.query -p compile_commands.json src/libcmd/installables.cc`.
+
+With this you can iterate a query before writing it in C++ and suffering from
+C++.
+
+### Tips and tricks for the C++
+
+There is a function `dump()` on many things that will dump to stderr. Also
+`llvm::errs()` lets you print to stderr.
+
+When I wrote `HasPrefixSuffixCheck`, I was not really able to figure out how
+the structured replacement system was supposed to work. In principle you can
+describe the replacement with a nice DSL. Look up the Stencil system in Clang
+for details.