zig

Store, merge, diff and easily handle zip-based binary files in git.

Usage

Git is not good to store binary files. Many binary files are zipped files with ascii content (like json or xml). This ascii content fits well to git. So wouldn’t it be great if you could with the binary files and checkin the ascii ones?

This project tries to find a feasible and simple solution that could be used, it currently works like this.

• zig init initializes a git repository by asking for a filename extension and adding it to the git configuration.
• zig zip will search for all directories matching a to zip filename pattern and build the representive file.
• git unzip will search for all files with the configured extension and extract it to the correspondent directory.
• git uninstall will remove all configuration from your git config.

Installation

Put the zig-binary somewhere where you can execute it.

curl https://github.com/rynr/zig/raw/master/zig > zig && chmod u+x zig

Limitations

• Currently files to handle are defined by filename extension. Other solutions are possible, but will follow.
• Currently all files are extracted or compressed. A check on the timestamp will follow.
• The current implementation uses bash functions, so it’s bound to a unix-like system. You can use cygwin on windows.

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