diff --git a/tools/config-clang-tidy b/tools/config-clang-tidy
index dbb0b54..9f81c4e 100755
--- a/tools/config-clang-tidy
+++ b/tools/config-clang-tidy
@@ -145,7 +145,11 @@
             return result
         for item in s.split():
             item = item.replace(",", "")
-            if "-*" in item:
+            # Ignore global wildcard because we handle that specifically.
+            if item.startswith("-*"):
+                continue
+            # Drop category wildcard disables since we already use a global wildcard.
+            if item.startswith("-") and "*" in item:
                 continue
             if item.startswith("-"):
                 result[item[1:]] = False