👉 point-out

Runs a given command and scans the output for warnings/errors to create a GitLab CI Code Quality report.

While running the command, the output is forwarded to stdout/stderr so you can still see what's happening. At the same time, the output is parsed for warnings and errors, which are then used to create a Code Quality report in the GitLab CI pipeline.

Currently parsers for the following tools are implemented:

• CMake (warning and fatal error messages)
• GCC, and tools that can use the same message format, like:
  • clang-format
  • clang-tidy
• cpplint (using emacs format, which is its default)

Usage

You can run point-out -h to see the latest usage/help information (which is probably more up-to-date than this README file).

point-out [options] -- [command to parse output from]

You can use the following options:

• -h, --help: display the help
• -V, --version: output the version number
• -l, --list: list all available parsers (currently not very useful, as all of them are always active)
• -n, --no-append: if set then report will be overwritten, instead of appending to it
• -j, --json-indent <num>: indent level for JSON output (default: "2")
• -r, --repo-path <path>: path to the repository (default: CI_PROJECT_DIR or current working directory)
• -a, --no-relative: do not make absolute paths relative to the repository path

Current state

The tool is still a work in progress, but should already be somewhat useable. If you run into any issues, please let me know.