From 4a76b6f04f9731ab1c106f33a1023658e7d06107 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: blyxyas <blyxyas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:14:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add the warning to all documentation.
---
README.md | 3 ++-
book/src/usage.md | 3 ++-
lintcheck/README.md | 4 +++-
src/main.rs | 2 +-
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 85798e0e80c..6745e15c006 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ cargo clippy
#### Automatically applying Clippy suggestions
-Clippy can automatically apply some lint suggestions, just like the compiler.
+Clippy can automatically apply some lint suggestions, just like the compiler. Note that `--fix` implies
+`--all-targets`, so it can fix as much code as it can.
```terminal
cargo clippy --fix
diff --git a/book/src/usage.md b/book/src/usage.md
index 32084a9199b..36448e4cccf 100644
--- a/book/src/usage.md
+++ b/book/src/usage.md
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ fn main() {
### Automatically applying Clippy suggestions
-Clippy can automatically apply some lint suggestions, just like the compiler.
+Clippy can automatically apply some lint suggestions, just like the compiler. Note that `--fix` implies
+`--all-targets`, so it can fix as much code as it can.
```terminal
cargo clippy --fix
diff --git a/lintcheck/README.md b/lintcheck/README.md
index faf3ce9093a..37cc0453809 100644
--- a/lintcheck/README.md
+++ b/lintcheck/README.md
@@ -79,9 +79,11 @@ is explicitly specified in the options.
### Fix mode
You can run `cargo lintcheck --fix` which will run Clippy with `--fix` and
-print a warning if Clippy's suggestions fail to apply (if the resulting code does not build).
+print a warning if Clippy's suggestions fail to apply (if the resulting code does not build).
This lets us spot bad suggestions or false positives automatically in some cases.
+> Note: Fix mode implies `--all-targets`, so it can fix as much code as it can.
+
Please note that the target dir should be cleaned afterwards since clippy will modify
the downloaded sources which can lead to unexpected results when running lintcheck again afterwards.
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index c5e9b96cf3f..188ff87abfc 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Usage:
Common options:
--no-deps Run Clippy only on the given crate, without linting the dependencies
- --fix Automatically apply lint suggestions. This flag implies `--no-deps`
+ --fix Automatically apply lint suggestions. This flag implies `--no-deps` and `--all-targets`
-h, --help Print this message
-V, --version Print version info and exit
--explain LINT Print the documentation for a given lint