Working with zip files

Hello,

I would like to store Simulink models in a Git
repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the
binary format happens to be a zipfile containing nicely formatted XML
files.

Is there a way to teach Git to take advantage of this when storing,
diff-ing and merging these files?

Best,
-Nikolaus

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

I would like to store Simulink models in a Git
repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the
binary format happens to be a zipfile containing nicely formatted XML
files.

Is there a way to teach Git to take advantage of this when storing,
diff-ing and merging these files?

you should be able to use clean/smudge to have git store the files uncompressed, 
which will help a lot.

I think there's a way to tell it to do a xml aware diff/patch, but I don't 
remember how.

David Lang