Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754773AbZGCKjv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:39:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751718AbZGCKjo (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:39:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:55464 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484AbZGCKjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:39:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:38:52 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , Mike Galbraith , Paul Mackerras , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Robert Richter , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner , Anton Blanchard Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Peter Zijlstra , x86 maintainers , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf tools: gitignore *.data Message-ID: <20090703103852.GA3242@elte.hu> References: <1246603147.2322.3.camel@jaswinder.satnam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1246603147.2322.3.camel@jaswinder.satnam> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.3 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.3 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 0.2 SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION Attempt to obfuscate words in Subject: -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 27 * Jaswinder Singh Rajput 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/