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

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Asheesh Laroia [off-list ref] wrote:

Peanut gallery question: Why not just always try these methods and catch
some format exception if they fail, proceeding to the next possible
decompressor (proceeding on to no decompressor)?

That way if a file is called .GZ, it will still be handled properly; in
fact, all files would still be handled properly.  And these formats leave
notes in the first few bytes of the file as to if they should be tried, so
it's not as if it would come at some performance cost.

How about adding in '.tar' decompression as well, -after- the '.gz'
decompression? That way you can have .tar.gz's and still be fine.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier