Re: Working with zip files

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Aug 16 2016, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> 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.

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?

Best,
Nikolaus
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