Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:18:24 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip] perf tools: gitignore *.data |
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* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.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).
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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