diff --git a/cmake/clang-tidy.cmake b/cmake/clang-tidy.cmake
index ce61faad..dad7ba20 100644
--- a/cmake/clang-tidy.cmake
+++ b/cmake/clang-tidy.cmake
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ if(CLANG_TIDY_EXE)
     set(DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
     set(CLANG_TIDY_CMD ${CLANG_TIDY_EXE})
     message(STATUS "cmake source dir: ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}")
+    # NOTE: copy default checks config file .clang-tidy for later use
+    configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.clang-tidy ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} @ONLY)
 
     if(SPDLOG_ENABLE_TIDY)
         # NOTE: the project config file .clang-tidy is not found if the
@@ -29,9 +31,9 @@ if(CLANG_TIDY_EXE)
 
         add_custom_command(TARGET check PRE_BUILD
             # -p BUILD_PATH Path used to read a compile command database (compile_commands.json).
-            # NOTE: we use defaults checks from .clang-tidy and examples only!
-            COMMAND ${CLANG_TIDY_RUNNER} -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} ### ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/example
-            WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"   # location of compile_commands.json
+            # NOTE: we use default checks from .clang-tidy
+            COMMAND ${CLANG_TIDY_RUNNER} -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
+            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}   # location of compile_commands.json
             COMMENT "Running check on targets at ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ..."
             VERBATIM
         )