Can (Tortoise) Svn auto uncompress-recompress files to merge/update files?

2012-04-10 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Folks, I'm using TortoiseSVN on Windows 7 talking to a mod_dav server in Apache hosted in Fedora 13. While TSVN is working for me, it might be possible to use another tool if that would help. The svn repo I maintain contains a lot of files for a simulator. The files define the simulator envi

Re: Can (Tortoise) Svn auto uncompress-recompress files to merge/update files?

2012-04-10 Thread David Weintraub
Why store the files as compressed if you need to merge them? You're not saving anything by zipping them up as a compressed archive. Subversion uses diff format to store changes, so each revision only stores the differences from the previous version. In fact, you're probably wasting a lot more room

Re: Can (Tortoise) Svn auto uncompress-recompress files to merge/update files?

2012-04-11 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: [...] > Is there a way (hook?), when TSVN sees a file is different, for it to call > an uncompress utility on the files from disk and repo, do the > merge/whatever, and then recompress again once finished? On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:13 AM, D