From: David Lang Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:58:09 GMT Subject: Re: Working with zip files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87pop8wh5w.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Aug 16 2016, David Lang 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