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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Jul 03 2009 - 10:44:56 EST


Em Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:18:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
>
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> hm, .bin is pretty overloaded as well. It also suggests a
> 'executable binary' in a certain way - which it isnt.

.samples
.perf
.perf_samples
.ps - oops, also used ;-)

- Arnaldo
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