aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D131386#3723144 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D131386#3723144>, @carlosgalvezp 
wrote:

>> but removing those options can break people's .clang-tidy config files
>
> Aren't there deprecation mechanisms? I think trying to be backwards 
> compatible across all possible versions can lead to suboptimal solutions and 
> make the tool harder to use and hard/slow to adapt to the needs of the 
> community.

Nothing stops us from deprecating config options with some nice diagnostic 
behavior, but again, this pushes the work off onto the user to maintain their 
scripts and gives them an inconsistent interface to clang-tidy where some 
checks get formatting options and other checks do not.


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