On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote:
JN>> You can find rezip clean/smudge filter (originally intended for JN>> OpenDocument Format (ODF), that is OpenOffice.org etc.) that stores JN>> zip or zip-archive (like ODT, jar, etc.) uncompressed. I think JN>> you can find it on GitWiki, but I might be mistaken. Using 'unzip -c' as separate / additional `textconv` filter for diff generation allows to separate the problem of deltifiable storage format from textual representation for diff-ing. Though best results could be had with `diff` and `merge` drivers...
can you point at an example of how to do this? when I went looking about a year ago to deal with single-line json data I wasn't able to find anything good. I ended up using clean/smudge to pretty-print the json so it was easier to handle.
David Lang