On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Aug 16 2016, David Lang <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >>> I would like to store Simulink models in a Git >>> repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the >>> binary format happens to be a zipfile containing nicely formatted XML >>> files. >>> >>> Is there a way to teach Git to take advantage of this when storing, >>> diff-ing and merging these files? >> >> you should be able to use clean/smudge to have git store the files >> uncompressed, which will help a lot. > > Having looked at that, I'm not sure if this really helps: > > As I understand, the smudge command is run on checkout to convert the > blob in the repository to the format that is desired in the working > tree. But this is the opposite of what I need: on checkout, I need to > convert the text data in the repository to a blob in the working tree. > > Furthermore, I need to convert multiple text files into one blob, will > smudge/clean seem to do just 1:1 conversions. > > Am I missing something? Are there any other options? You want to store the contents of the zip file as *one* blob that is the uncompressed contents of the archive somehow concatenated together. That should still be a 1:1 relationship. You won't store one blob per file in the zip. Thanks, Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html