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[Gnu-arch-users] False "binary" files
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Sergio Callegari |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] False "binary" files |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:51:34 +0100 |
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Hello,
I'm wondering whether it could be possibe to add support in arch for the
following:
It happens quite often to have in a tree files that appear to be
"binary" but are actually the simple result of a compression applied to
text files or to collection of text files.
For instance I'm thinking of documentation written in the openoffice
format (actually a zipped collection of xml files). With the growth of
compressed xml and the oasis open document format the number of
situations where these "false binary files" are met is likely to grow
dramatically.
Deltas for these files tend to be huge, even if the originating
uncompressed files change just by a single character.
I wonder if it might be possible to make arch/bazaar aware of this kind
of files, in order to have efficient diffs.
For instance, gz files could be expanded before diffing/taking delta.
Similarly tar.gz or zip files could be expanded and then processed
recursively.
Sergio
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- [Gnu-arch-users] False "binary" files,
Sergio Callegari <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] False "binary" files, Johannes Berg, 2005/02/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: False "binary" files, Matthieu Moy, 2005/02/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Anand Kumria, 2005/02/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Aaron Bentley, 2005/02/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Jan Hudec, 2005/02/12
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Miles Bader, 2005/02/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2005/02/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] Re: False "binary" files, Jan Hudec, 2005/02/15