Re: Working with zip files

From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Aug 17, 2016, 09:58 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1608170256450.11774@nftneq.ynat.uz>
In-Reply-To: <87pop8wh5w.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org>

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath 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?

so the smudge command would zip the file and the clean command would unzip the file (assuming it's a single file, if the zip is multiple files, you will have to add something to combine them)

you want the working tree to have a zip file and the repository to have text.

David Lang