From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:56:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Working with zip files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1608180954400.11774@nftneq.ynat.uz>
In-Reply-To: <12866c04-f910-2a83-b445-6eada3d2efc9@gmail.com>

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote:

> JN>> You can find rezip clean/smudge filter (originally intended for
> JN>> OpenDocument Format (ODF), that is OpenOffice.org etc.) that stores
> JN>> zip or zip-archive (like ODT, jar, etc.) uncompressed.  I think
> JN>> you can find it on GitWiki, but I might be mistaken.
>
> Using 'unzip -c' as separate / additional `textconv` filter for diff
> generation allows to separate the problem of deltifiable storage format
> from textual representation for diff-ing.
>
> Though best results could be had with `diff` and `merge` drivers...

can you point at an example of how to do this? when I went looking about a year 
ago to deal with single-line json data I wasn't able to find anything good. I 
ended up using clean/smudge to pretty-print the json so it was easier to handle.

David Lang