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

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] wrote:

On 2008-06-10 10:07:25 +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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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 ;).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier