From: Alon Ziv <alonz@nolaviz.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:58:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add keyword unexpansion support to convert.c
Message-ID: <1176919099.14664.4.camel@bruno.nolaviz.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704181147330.4504@xanadu.home>

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:59 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> So if your .odf file is actually a zip with multiple files, then all you 
> have to do is to convert that zip archive into a non compressed tar 
> archive on checkins, and the reverse transformation on checkouts.  The 
> non compressed tar content will delta well, the Git archive will be 
> small, and no tricks with the index will be needed.
> 

In fact, for the specific case of OO.o files, I would claim the proper
transformation is just converting to non-compressed zip on checkin...

(Non-compressed zip is just as good here as tar, and has the added
advantage that there is no need for a reverse transformation on
checkout :))

	-az