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

[Frederic Weisbecker]

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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