CLANG-INCLUDE-FIXER(1)

🦋 CLANG-INCLUDE-FIXER 🦋

okay so welcome to CLANG-INCLUDE-FIXER(1) bestie, this is the manual page for clang-include-fixer 22 and we're gonna get through it together, no cap 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

clang-include-fixer — literally the manual page for clang-include-fixer 22. that's it, that's the name, periodt.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Here's the shape of it, the whole vibe, the usage bestie:

USAGE: clang-include-fixer [options] <source0> [... <sourceN>]

And now… the options. so many options. we love her for it tho 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🌈 Generic Options 🌈

these are the lil universal ones, the group-chat basics:

• --help — shows you all the available options that are just out here in the open (--help-hidden is the one you hit up for the extra secret ones)
• --help-list — displays a list of the available options (--help-list-hidden for even more, iykyk)
• --version — tells you what version of this program you're working with

🎀 Tool options 🎀

okay now THIS is the main character section, the real ones:

• --db=<value> — specify the input format, and here's the menu of what value can be, no guessing:
  • =fixed — hard-coded mapping
  • =yaml — a Yaml database created by find-all-symbols
  • =fuzzyYaml — a Yaml database, but with fuzzy-matched names ✨
• --extra-arg=<string> — an additional argument to append to the compiler command line
• --extra-arg-before=<string> — an additional argument to prepend to the compiler command line (yes, before, not after, don't mix them up bestie 😭)
• --input=<string> — a String to initialize the database with
• --insert-header=<string> — insert a specific header. This should run with STDIN mode. The result is written to stdout. It is currently used for editor integration. It supports YAML/JSON format:

-insert-header="{
       FilePath: "/path/to/foo.cc", QuerySymbolInfos: [

       {RawIdentifier: foo,
              Range: {Offset: 0, Length: 3}}

       ],     HeaderInfos: [ {Headers: "\"foo_a.h\"",

              QualifiedName: "a::foo"} ]}"

• --minimize-paths — whether to minimize added include paths
• --output-headers — print the symbol being queried and all its relevant headers in JSON format to stdout, like this:

{      "FilePath": "/path/to/foo.cc", "QuerySymbolInfos": [

       {"RawIdentifier": "foo",
              "Range": {"Offset": 0, "Length": 3}}

       ],     "HeaderInfos": [ {"Header": "\"foo_a.h\"",

       "QualifiedName": "a::foo"} ]
       }

• -p <string> — build path
• -q — reduce terminal output (quiet lil queen 🫶)
• --query-symbol=<string> — query a given symbol (e.g. "a::b::foo") in the database directly, without parsing the file. so direct. so efficient. 💅
• --stdin — override the source file's content (in the overlaying virtual file system) with input from <stdin> and run the tool on the new content with the compilation options of the source file. This mode is currently used for editor integration.
• --style=<string> — the fallback style for reformatting after inserting new headers, if there's no clang-format config file found 🌸

heads up bestie: --insert-header should run with STDIN mode, and its result goes to stdout — and it's currently used for editor integration, so that's the context you're stepping into 💖

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it, you read every single flag and i'm so proud of you 🥹💜

this was clang-include-fixer 22, dated September 2026 — that's the version and the date, leaving you with all the love, bye bestie 🎀✨🌈