P.Marek - 2008-03-20

Hello everybody!

I'd like to ask for a new feature - re-(un-)compressing .ZIP files by piping through advzip.
Recompression is already possible; but only for files.

Why do I need that?
FSVS (http://fsvs.tigris.org/, http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsvs\) has a feature of using a pipe for sending data into the repository (see http://fsvs.tigris.org/source/browse/\*checkout*/fsvs/trunk/www/doxygen/html/group__s__p__n.html#g2d334147103fe5343ebed845cea712c7) for details); and for some types of data, like .odt or .jar (which are just .ZIP files with another extension) it would be very nice to send them uncompressed into the subversion repository, so that the delta compression therein could work.

Currently such files are normally sent as-is, which causes the delta algorithm to fail - and store the new copy verbatim. This means more storage used than necessary.

Thank you!

Regards,

Phil