Re: [PATCH - stgit] Patch to allow import of compressed files

From: Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2008, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0806100257k4700d364occ08457279e8a735@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080610095349.GA30119@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:

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> On 2008-06-10 10:07:25 +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>
>> How about adding in '.tar' decompression as well, -after- the '.gz'
>> decompression? That way you can have .tar.gz's and still be fine.
>
> A tar file would presumably contain more than one patch -- it'd be
> more like a directory of patches than a single patch file.

Why? $ tar czvf mypatch.patch.tar.gz mypatch.patch

> I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to support it, but it's not what
> the original poster needed, and building it would be a bunch of extra
> work.

A bunch of extra work? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html I say it'd be about as much work as the original patch ;).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier