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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.
>
> Cool, I'll look into that.
>
>> I think there's a way to tell it to do a xml aware diff/patch, but I
>> don't remember how.
>
> Oh, I didn't even want to go that far. I'm perfectly happy if it does a
> text-based diff/patch of the contained XML files. Would clean/smudge
> provide that already?