On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Elias Probst <m...@eliasprobst.eu> wrote:

> I've noticed, that (except of only a very few) nearly all SVG files are
> committed as SVGZ to our git repositories.
>
> This has IMHO several drawbacks:
> - every change will be stored as a single atomic blob
> - git's internal packfile compression and deduplication can't be used
> - no diffs for changes done to SVGs can be viewed
> - batch-editing of files via sed/awk/… is way more difficult
>
> I'd like to suggest to implement a git hook which enforces SVG files
> being pushed uncompressed.
> The compression of SVG to SVGZ might happen when building release tarballs.
>
> What are your thoughts? Any reasons not to do this?
>
> - Elias P.
>

I think it's a good idea.

Aleix
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