diff --git a/housekeeping/clang-tidy-diff.sh b/housekeeping/clang-tidy-diff.sh
index 63516f2099..f23217baf3 100755
--- a/housekeeping/clang-tidy-diff.sh
+++ b/housekeeping/clang-tidy-diff.sh
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@
 BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR:-build}"
 
 cd $(dirname $0)/..
-git diff -U0 HEAD^ | clang-tidy-diff.py -p1 -path $BUILD_DIR -regex "\.(hpp|h)"
+git diff -U0 origin/master | clang-tidy-diff.py -p1 -path $BUILD_DIR -iregex '(core|node)\/.*\.(h|c|hpp|cpp)' | tee clang-tidy.log
+! grep ': error:' clang-tidy.log