[Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: False "binary" files

[Anand Kumria]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:34:02 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Johannes Berg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Sergio Callegari wrote:
>>
>>> For instance, gz files could be expanded before diffing/taking delta. 
>>> Similarly tar.gz or zip files could be expanded and then processed
>>> recursively.
>>
>> Stuff like this has been discussed a lot, please review old threads.
> 
> Searching for preprecommit hook for example ...

A precommit hook would be useful to implement exploding OpenOffice (and
other compressed XML) files.

You could use this to, unzip *.sxw into a directory.  Perform the commit.
Reverse the explosion by zipping the directory back to a .sxw file.

Ugly but it should work.

Anand