Re: feature request: handle archives as like directory trees

On Sep 8, 2010, at 16:03, Ds Jstc wrote:

> Initially I just wanted keyword substitution inside a .xltm file. But really, Office 2007 documents are just zip files, and that got me thinking that the problem is more general.
>
> Many of the best features of subversion only operate on text. Unfortunately, there are tons of compound document formats out there that actually *are* text, when you get right down to it. The text just happens to be compressed and collected with some other stuff.
>
> So... what if a compressed archive was extracted during checkin, and re-archived on checkout? This would
> (a) more easily allow for text diffs between versions of documents.
> (b) permit keyword substitution
> (c) allow the choice of other, more effective compression (eg, bz2) on the back end.
>
> Thoughts?

This has come up before, and it sounds like a useful feature to me. But I don't use these types of documents so I haven't had a need to pursue the matter.
Received on 2010-09-08 23:08:16 CEST