Re: [PATCH - stgit] Patch to allow import of compressed files

> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>
>> Peanut gallery question: Why not just always try these methods and catch
>> some format exception if they fail, proceeding to the next possible
>> decompressor (proceeding on to no decompressor)?
>>
>> That way if a file is called .GZ, it will still be handled properly; in
>> fact, all files would still be handled properly.  And these formats
>> leave notes in the first few bytes of the file as to if they should be
>> tried, so it's not as if it would come at some performance cost.
>
> Interesting thought. Do all the decompressors throw an error if the input format
> isn't recognized?