Hi, some times ago, i considered ways to achieve a smarter management of openoffice files with git. The thread started at: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/95951 There, a "rezip" script was proposed to store OO files uncompressed into git repos, so that the compression and delta machinery of git could operate at its best with them. Appartently, the script rose some interest. In the following days I received quite a few corrections/enhancements proposals for which all the posters I thank. Also I was asked to upload the script and instructions relative to its adoption together with .gitattributes to the git wiki. This I didn't do (I do not know if someone else might have done it) because I first wanted to be absolutely sure that the script would cause no problems to anybody. Unfortunately, I now see that there is an issue, so I am sending a warning. The problem stems from the fact that ODF files, due to the zip compression also might store pieces of info that are completely irrelevant. For instance zip stores ownership of member files. This is why in the rezip script I initially started to unzip files with -X. Now, this seems to be looking for trouble when repos are passed from one user to another one. When we uncompress and ODF file for storing we should probably scrap away the member ownership info alltogether. Note that this is not equivalent to not using -X. Not using -X would mean "changing" member owernership when an ODF file is passed from one user to another one. Using -X seemed to me the correct thing to do as it allowed to leave untouched the member ownership. However, -X fails when user A has no permission to create files as user B. I found out about this issue by having accounts on many hosts, where my alphanumeric user ID maps to different numeric IDs. I will look better at this as soon as I have time. So far, please just be careful. My guess is that we should not use -X on "unzip" but use it on "zip". E.g. patch the rezip script so that PROFILE_UNZIP_ODF_UNCOMPRESS='-b -qq' PROFILE_ZIP_ODF_UNCOMPRESS='-q -r -D -0 -X' PROFILE_UNZIP_ODF_COMPRESS='-b -qq' PROFILE_ZIP_ODF_COMPRESS='-q -r -D -6 -X' Sergio -- 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
