Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:36:36 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
       Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
       Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf tools: gitignore *.data
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Em Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:18:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> 
> * 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.

.samples
.perf
.perf_samples
.ps - oops, also used ;-)

- Arnaldo
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