From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:27:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Working with zip files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1608160926330.11774@nftneq.ynat.uz>
In-Reply-To: <87y43wwujd.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org>

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.

I think there's a way to tell it to do a xml aware diff/patch, but I don't 
remember how.

David Lang