Re: Working with zip files

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

On Aug 16 2016, David Lang [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

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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.

Having looked at that, I'm not sure if this really helps:

As I understand, the smudge command is run on checkout to convert the
blob in the repository to the format that is desired in the working
tree. But this is the opposite of what I need: on checkout, I need to
convert the text data in the repository to a blob in the working tree.

Furthermore, I need to convert multiple text files into one blob, will
smudge/clean seem to do just 1:1 conversions.

Am I missing something? Are there any other options?

so the smudge command would zip the file and the clean command would unzip the 
file (assuming it's a single file, if the zip is multiple files, you will have 
to add something to combine them)

you want the working tree to have a zip file and the repository to have text.

David Lang