From: "Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>
To: "Asheesh Laroia" <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Cc: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>,
"Clark Williams" <clark.williams@gmail.com>,
"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH - stgit] Patch to allow import of compressed files
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:07:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0806100107y415a292eqe22af7a7b2215e65@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806092335420.17180@swallowtail>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org> wrote:
> 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.
How about adding in '.tar' decompression as well, -after- the '.gz'
decompression? That way you can have .tar.gz's and still be fine.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-09 18:38 [PATCH - stgit] Patch to allow import of compressed files Clark Williams
2008-06-10 6:33 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-10 6:38 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-06-10 8:07 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2008-06-10 9:53 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-10 9:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 10:28 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-10 10:33 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-10 14:06 ` Clark Williams
2008-06-10 14:01 ` Clark Williams
2008-06-10 13:57 ` Clark Williams
2008-06-10 14:04 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-06-10 13:54 ` Clark Williams
2008-06-10 13:54 ` Clark Williams
2008-06-11 6:27 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-11 17:28 ` Clark Williams
2008-06-11 19:14 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 14:17 ` David Kågedal
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