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

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Clark Williams wrote:

Asheesh Laroia wrote:

quoted

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.

Interesting thought. Do all the decompressors throw an error if the input format
isn't recognized?

Yup!  (Try it!)

-- Asheesh.

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