handling zip files

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of hamann.w at t-online.de
> 
> Some "binary" files that would make sense to track are actually zip
> files.
> I have seen that someone created an extension specific for openoffice,
> but is there anything like a generic zip file handler (unpack both
> files into folders and do a recursive diff on the
> contents)

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned this yet: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ZipdocExtension
It is a generic zip file handler that repacks zip archives without compression, so you can diff it with whatever tool you like. On checkout, it repacks the archive again with compression, so it takes less space in the working copy.

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