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

[Ingo Molnar]

* 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.

	Ingo
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