On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote:
On 18 August 2016 at 18:56, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
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.
Pro Git has a chapter "Customizing Git - Git Attributes" about gitattributes
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attributes
The section "Diffing Binary Files" has two examples: docx2txt (with wrapper)
for DOCX (MS Word) files, and exiftool for images. For JSON you could use
some prettyprinter / formatter like pp-json.
"Performing text diffs of binary files" section of gitattributes(1) manpage
covers 'textconv' vs 'diff', and uses 'exif' tool as textconv example.
As I read that section, it only applies to the human readable output of git
diff.
And the merge section only talks about the default of using patch vs accepting a
specific version in a merge.
It seems to me that what I'm looking for would be something to tell git to use a
different command instead of diff/patch internally when creating and using the
bundles.
David Lang
