Re: Working with zip files

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2016, 05:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xp2q8JWqqtqj-ATd=Ox9snTpC0DE9ND76VhV-5hOvVQdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87pop8wh5w.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:

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> On Aug 16 2016, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to store Simulink models in a Git
>>> repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the
>>> binary format happens to be a zipfile containing nicely formatted XML
>>> files.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to teach Git to take advantage of this when storing,
>>> diff-ing and merging these files?
>>
>> you should be able to use clean/smudge to have git store the files
>> uncompressed, which will help a lot.
>
> Having looked at that, I'm not sure if this really helps:
>
> As I understand, the smudge command is run on checkout to convert the
> blob in the repository to the format that is desired in the working
> tree. But this is the opposite of what I need: on checkout, I need to
> convert the text data in the repository to a blob in the working tree.
>
> Furthermore, I need to convert multiple text files into one blob, will
> smudge/clean seem to do just 1:1 conversions.
>
> Am I missing something? Are there any other options?

You want to store the contents of the zip file as *one* blob that is the uncompressed contents of the archive somehow concatenated together. That should still be a 1:1 relationship.

You won't store one blob per file in the zip.

Thanks, Jake