Abpostelnicu added a comment.

In D81917#2127690 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D81917#2127690>, @njames93 wrote:

> In D81917#2127477 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D81917#2127477>, @Abpostelnicu 
> wrote:
>
> > @njames93 wdyt if we add another parameter to distinguish if we want to use 
> > regex or not, and if not we escape the paths?
> >  Also thank you so much for catching this up!
>
>
> As the argument is documented as being a regex string, we shouldn't really 
> try to escape it, and users should be expected escape any file names 
> themselves before invoking the script.
>  If for whatever reason you want to use `.c++` as your file extension. then 
> you should pass `r'*\.c\+\+'` to the script.
>
> Can I ask what the specific use case you have that is causing the issue? Are 
> you invoking `run-clang-tidy` from a script that generates the list of files 
> to search for?


Thank you for the detailed reply! we are using this script in automation and 
some files from our repo indeed need to be escaped. I think it makes sense what 
you are saying to give to the consumer the files already escaped. I'm going to 
close this issue.


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