Re: [PATCH -tip] perf tools: gitignore *.data

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Jul 03 2009 - 09:09:53 EST


On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > perf.data made by perf record is a data file and need to be
> > ignored by git
> >
> > Added *.data so that perf.data and its friends will be ignored.
>
> > cscope*
> > +*.data
>
> ok, this is something i wanted to revisit eventually - the
> 'perf.data' name sucks a bit - as .data postfix is quite unspecific.
>
> Perhaps trace.perf is a better default name, and all files would
> have the .perf postfix?
>
> I've Cc:-ed a number of folks who might have an opinion about this -
> what would be the best default naming and postfix for perf binary
> files?
>
> Ingo


perf.bin seems to me adequate as it tells everything (IMHO).

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