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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-14 19:42:07 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-15 04:12:51 +0200
commit7865e817e9b4b378ac57ab7f16183100b95466ce (patch)
treeb3fd7772abc44491b884b780f5cac364a2ace563 /tools/perf/Documentation
parenta1e2f60e3efc812bf66a2be0d8530ee175003f6d (diff)
downloadlinux-7865e817e9b4b378ac57ab7f16183100b95466ce.tar.bz2
perf: Make -f the default for perf record
Force the overwriting mode by default if append mode is not explicit. Adding -f every time one uses perf on a daily basis quickly becomes a burden. Keep the -f among the options though to avoid breaking some random users scripts. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index fc46c0b40f6e..b29bd2db6a49 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ OPTIONS
-f::
--force::
- Overwrite existing data file.
+ Overwrite existing data file. (deprecated)
-c::
--count=::