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C/C++ Linter

v2.13.4 Latest version

C/C++ Linter

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C/C++ Linter

Linting C/C++ code with clang-tidy or clang-format to give feedback as comments, PR reviews, and more

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: C/C++ Linter

              
  uses: cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action@v2.13.4
Learn more about this action in cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action

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C/C++ Linter Action | clang-format & clang-tidy

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A Github Action for linting C/C++ code integrating clang-tidy and clang-format to collect feedback provided in the form of file-annotations, thread-comments, workflow step-summary, and Pull Request reviews (with tidy-review or format-review).

Warning

We only support Linux runners using a Debian-based Linux OS (like Ubuntu and many others).

MacOS and Windows runners are supported as well.

Usage

Note

Python 3.10 needs to be installed in the docker image if your workflow is running jobs in a container (see discussion in #185). Our intention is to synchronize with the default Python version included with Ubuntu's latest LTS releases.

Create a new GitHub Actions workflow in your project, e.g. at .github/workflows/cpp-linter.yml

The content of the file should be in the following format.

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action@v2
        id: linter
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          style: 'file'  # Use .clang-format config file
          tidy-checks: '' # Use .clang-tidy config file
          # only 'update' a single comment in a pull request thread.
          thread-comments: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 'update' }}
      - name: Fail fast?!
        if: steps.linter.outputs.checks-failed > 0
        run: exit 1

For all explanations of our available input parameters and output variables, see our Inputs and Outputs document.

See also our example recipes.

Example

Annotations

Using file-annotations:

clang-format annotations

clang-format annotations

clang-tidy annotations

clang-tidy annotations

Thread Comment

Using thread-comments:

sample thread-comment

Step Summary

Using step-summary:

step summary

Pull Request Review

Only clang-tidy

Using tidy-review:

sample tidy-review

Only clang-format

Using format-review:

sample format-review

sample format-suggestion

Add C/C++ Linter Action badge in README

You can show C/C++ Linter Action status with a badge in your repository README

Example

[![cpp-linter](https://github.com/cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action/actions/workflows/cpp-linter.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action/actions/workflows/cpp-linter.yml)

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Have question or feedback?

To provide feedback (requesting a feature or reporting a bug) please post to issues.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License