Add avoid_breaking_exported_api config option

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c6b67bb6221..6c556f579ca 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ Some lints can be configured in a TOML file named `clippy.toml` or `.clippy.toml
 value` mapping eg.
 
 ```toml
+avoid-breaking-exported-api = false
 blacklisted-names = ["toto", "tata", "titi"]
 cognitive-complexity-threshold = 30
 ```
diff --git a/clippy_lints/src/utils/conf.rs b/clippy_lints/src/utils/conf.rs
index fd2dddb3b96..d65270a9450 100644
--- a/clippy_lints/src/utils/conf.rs
+++ b/clippy_lints/src/utils/conf.rs
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ macro_rules! define_Conf {
 
 // N.B., this macro is parsed by util/lintlib.py
 define_Conf! {
+    /// Lint: ENUM_VARIANT_NAMES, LARGE_TYPES_PASSED_BY_VALUE, TRIVIALLY_COPY_PASS_BY_REF, UNNECESSARY_WRAPS, UPPER_CASE_ACRONYMS, WRONG_SELF_CONVENTION. Suppress lints whenever the suggested change would cause breakage for other crates.
+    (avoid_breaking_exported_api: bool = true),
     /// Lint: CLONED_INSTEAD_OF_COPIED, REDUNDANT_FIELD_NAMES, REDUNDANT_STATIC_LIFETIMES, FILTER_MAP_NEXT, CHECKED_CONVERSIONS, MANUAL_RANGE_CONTAINS, USE_SELF, MEM_REPLACE_WITH_DEFAULT, MANUAL_NON_EXHAUSTIVE, OPTION_AS_REF_DEREF, MAP_UNWRAP_OR, MATCH_LIKE_MATCHES_MACRO, MANUAL_STRIP, MISSING_CONST_FOR_FN, UNNESTED_OR_PATTERNS, FROM_OVER_INTO, PTR_AS_PTR, IF_THEN_SOME_ELSE_NONE. The minimum rust version that the project supports
     (msrv: Option<String> = None),
     /// Lint: BLACKLISTED_NAME. The list of blacklisted names to lint about. NB: `bar` is not here since it has legitimate uses
diff --git a/tests/ui-toml/toml_unknown_key/conf_unknown_key.stderr b/tests/ui-toml/toml_unknown_key/conf_unknown_key.stderr
index d83080b69f5..a7be00426c4 100644
--- a/tests/ui-toml/toml_unknown_key/conf_unknown_key.stderr
+++ b/tests/ui-toml/toml_unknown_key/conf_unknown_key.stderr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-error: error reading Clippy's configuration file `$DIR/clippy.toml`: unknown field `foobar`, expected one of `msrv`, `blacklisted-names`, `cognitive-complexity-threshold`, `cyclomatic-complexity-threshold`, `doc-valid-idents`, `too-many-arguments-threshold`, `type-complexity-threshold`, `single-char-binding-names-threshold`, `too-large-for-stack`, `enum-variant-name-threshold`, `enum-variant-size-threshold`, `verbose-bit-mask-threshold`, `literal-representation-threshold`, `trivial-copy-size-limit`, `pass-by-value-size-limit`, `too-many-lines-threshold`, `array-size-threshold`, `vec-box-size-threshold`, `max-trait-bounds`, `max-struct-bools`, `max-fn-params-bools`, `warn-on-all-wildcard-imports`, `disallowed-methods`, `unreadable-literal-lint-fractions`, `upper-case-acronyms-aggressive`, `cargo-ignore-publish`, `third-party` at line 5 column 1
+error: error reading Clippy's configuration file `$DIR/clippy.toml`: unknown field `foobar`, expected one of `avoid-breaking-exported-api`, `msrv`, `blacklisted-names`, `cognitive-complexity-threshold`, `cyclomatic-complexity-threshold`, `doc-valid-idents`, `too-many-arguments-threshold`, `type-complexity-threshold`, `single-char-binding-names-threshold`, `too-large-for-stack`, `enum-variant-name-threshold`, `enum-variant-size-threshold`, `verbose-bit-mask-threshold`, `literal-representation-threshold`, `trivial-copy-size-limit`, `pass-by-value-size-limit`, `too-many-lines-threshold`, `array-size-threshold`, `vec-box-size-threshold`, `max-trait-bounds`, `max-struct-bools`, `max-fn-params-bools`, `warn-on-all-wildcard-imports`, `disallowed-methods`, `unreadable-literal-lint-fractions`, `upper-case-acronyms-aggressive`, `cargo-ignore-publish`, `third-party` at line 5 column 1
 
 error: aborting due to previous error