Explain how Clippy and lints work #2687
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Would be good if someone with more experience has a look at this, as I'm not sure if I used the correct terms everywhere. |
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| reg.register_lint_group("clippy_restriction", vec
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The util/update_lints.py script looks through the sources and collects all lint definitions to generate this part of lib.rs.
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oh, that kind of autogenerated! I've always been modifying it manually until now.. Makes sense to add it
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I added the note about the |
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Also for #2666
This adds a rough overview of how Clippy hooks into rustc and how different lint types are registered with the PluginRegistry. It doesn't explain everything yet, but should give a good overview, hopefully.
It is partly inspired by the quick rustfmt tour.
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