diff --git a/.clang-tidy b/.clang-tidy
index 2a4d4f3135c..f8947eb0754 100644
--- a/.clang-tidy
+++ b/.clang-tidy
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# The warnings below are disabled because they are too pedantic and not worth fixing.
+# Some of them will be enabled as part of the Clang-Tidy task, see T78535.
+
 Checks:  >
   -*,
   readability-*,