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

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Message-ID: <20090703130936.GA5072@nowhere>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:09:39 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf tools: gitignore *.data

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> 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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