Re: Versioning of archive files (Open Office files)

> > Is it possible to not handle archive files (like zip files) like binary
> > files?
>
> When transmitting files over a network, or storing files in the
> repository, Subversion treats *all* files like binary files. It uses
> a binary diffing algorithm to transmit and store binary differences.
>
> In the working copy, however, you can tell Subversion to treat a file
> as binary or text by setting a metadata property. Only the working
> copy has a notion of "text" vs. "binary" -- and this property
> determines whether or not contextual merges are attempted during
> updates, that's it.

I think he's looking for some kind of client-hook which uncompressed the
archive and did some operations on them. Something between merge-hooks
and client-read/write-sentinels. :-)

I'm not sure if such beast would be useful for diffing purposes, as
stated in his email, but there's a small advantage in storing those
files uncompressed, since diffing compressed data don't work very well.
OTOH, something like that would obligate everyone working with this data
to have the same client-side hooks, so this could be a task to a svn
wrapper.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
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