From 7865e817e9b4b378ac57ab7f16183100b95466ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:42:07 +0200
Subject: 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>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt')

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=::
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