Martin Langhoff <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I am lost as to your objective because you seem to be keeping a >> whole LOT more than I would have imagined for a specialized >> purpose file format. > > My source files are 2 zipfiles that I know contain 1 xml file, and then > may contain any arbitrary files. As a specialised file format is a > pretty general case ;-) Because of compression, xdeltas of the zipfiles > aren't good. So what I want to do is to diff the 2 unzipped directories > - nothing git-specific, I could use diff -urN. > > Git diff *is* better in that it handles binary files, but we pay a > sizable cost in being reversible. Did I forget to say that I am Ok with --oneway option? In fact, we started as oneway but we _fixed_ it to make it reversible soon after the initial version ;-) So "git apply" still can grok oneway format. - 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
