On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:05:31PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> hendrik> Can we uncompress compressed files so as top better
> hendrik> diff/merge the contents and recompress on checkout? This
> hendrik> might be very helpful for openoffice files.
>
> Uhmmmmmm, I seriously thing this is way out of monotone's scope.
This week, anyway ...
But it is a real problem.
Last time I looked at a OpenOffice file, it was a compressed zip archive
containing several files
the actual text coded as XML
the style sheet for presenting said XML
a few other things, maybe the DTD, I forget.
But we won't be able to properly merge these files unless we do
unarchive and rearchive them.
I suspect with the absurd bulkiness of XML notation, this won't be the
last case we encounter where compression interferes with merging.
-- hendrik
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