Re: clean/smudge filters on .zip/.tgz files
Johannes Sixt venit, vidit, dixit 27.02.2013 07:39: Am 2/26/2013 23:38, schrieb Tim Chase: Various programs that I use ([Open|Libre]Office, Vym, etc) use a zipped/.tgz'ed file format, usually containing multiple (usually) plain-text files within. I'm trying to figure out a way for git to treat these as virtual directories for purposes of merging/diffing. Reading up on clean/smudge filters, it looks like they expect one file coming in and one file going out, rather than one file on one side and a directory-tree of files on the other side. I tried creating my own pair of clean/smudge filters that would uncompress the files, but there's no good way put multiple files on stdout. Has anybody else played with such a scheme for uncompressing files as they go into git and recompressing them as they come back out? I attempted to do something like this for OpenDocument files (I didn't get very far) until I discovered that LibreOffice can save flat open document files. That combined with the option save files optimized switched off results in fairly readable XML in a single file that can even be merged under some circumstances. You would still need a clean filter that normalizes the style numbers, cross reference marks and other stuff that changes each time LibreOffice saves the file. -- Hannes In general, using zip -0 is a good way of getting something that delta-compresses well and that can give a meaningful diff (and has no information loss). The (my) problem is that recompressing a zip archive (i.e. multi-file) is a pita, you can't just use a pipe unzip | zip -0. You'd have to do that in a temp dir. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
clean/smudge filters on .zip/.tgz files
Various programs that I use ([Open|Libre]Office, Vym, etc) use a zipped/.tgz'ed file format, usually containing multiple (usually) plain-text files within. I'm trying to figure out a way for git to treat these as virtual directories for purposes of merging/diffing. Reading up on clean/smudge filters, it looks like they expect one file coming in and one file going out, rather than one file on one side and a directory-tree of files on the other side. I tried creating my own pair of clean/smudge filters that would uncompress the files, but there's no good way put multiple files on stdout. Has anybody else played with such a scheme for uncompressing files as they go into git and recompressing them as they come back out? -tkc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: clean/smudge filters on .zip/.tgz files
Am 2/26/2013 23:38, schrieb Tim Chase: Various programs that I use ([Open|Libre]Office, Vym, etc) use a zipped/.tgz'ed file format, usually containing multiple (usually) plain-text files within. I'm trying to figure out a way for git to treat these as virtual directories for purposes of merging/diffing. Reading up on clean/smudge filters, it looks like they expect one file coming in and one file going out, rather than one file on one side and a directory-tree of files on the other side. I tried creating my own pair of clean/smudge filters that would uncompress the files, but there's no good way put multiple files on stdout. Has anybody else played with such a scheme for uncompressing files as they go into git and recompressing them as they come back out? I attempted to do something like this for OpenDocument files (I didn't get very far) until I discovered that LibreOffice can save flat open document files. That combined with the option save files optimized switched off results in fairly readable XML in a single file that can even be merged under some circumstances. You would still need a clean filter that normalizes the style numbers, cross reference marks and other stuff that changes each time LibreOffice saves the file. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
