Storing FreeCAD files in a git repo

[reox]

checked you code in github.
It looks you don't unzip the freecad file?
right?

WIP https://github.com/reox/FreeCAD_gitproject

poke

nope, they are not unpacked.
The problem with unpacking is, that you can not simply send the file to someone else etc... My approach was to have as less special setup as possible.
So you should be able to run FreeCAD without the plugin to open the files from the repo and you should be able to move the files from the repo without having to do anything.

[hardeeprai]

https://bitbucket.org/sippey/zippey

I try this python tool, it work well for me to use git.

Zippey: A Git filter for friendly handling of ZIP-based files

A similar tool

https://github.com/costerwi/rezip

I believe the present "git" is part of WebTools workbench in FreeCAD, and it does not push unzipped files. Is it possible to add such filter automatically, when using git from within FreeCAD with FreeCAD files, on Installing WebTools?

[reox]

https://bitbucket.org/sippey/zippey

I try this python tool, it work well for me to use git.

Zippey: A Git filter for friendly handling of ZIP-based files

A similar tool

https://github.com/costerwi/rezip

I believe the present "git" is part of WebTools workbench in FreeCAD, and it does not push unzipped files. Is it possible to add such filter automatically, when using git from within FreeCAD with FreeCAD files, on Installing WebTools?

you would need to rewrite the git config... you can also define this globally per file ending.

[yorik]

A similar tool
https://github.com/costerwi/rezip

Interesting, thanks! The other one has better doc but this one is simpler...

I believe the present "git" is part of WebTools workbench in FreeCAD, and it does not push unzipped files. Is it possible to add such filter automatically, when using git from within FreeCAD with FreeCAD files, on Installing WebTools?

I hadn't thought about it, but that could be an interesting idea. I don't know how much it is possible to automate the filter configuration, though. To be tested..

[bricechart]

What happens when you disable compression within FreeCAD. Does GIT then handle the files properly?

[chrisb]

Even if you set the compression level to 0 it remains a zip container.

[bricechart]

Even if you set the compression level to 0 it remains a zip container.

I'm not 100% familiar how ZIP file structure works. Why is is that with 0 compression the file is viewable in Notepad++

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[reox]

if you choose STORE as compression, it will just put the file as is after the local file header.
You can see the start of the first local file header in the editor: PK

[bricechart]

if you choose STORE as compression, it will just put the file as is after the local file header.
You can see the start of the first local file header in the editor: PK

But doesn't GIT recognize the information after the header? When I perform commits with large FreeCAD files (300+MB), it doesn't appear to be uploading the entire file.

[reox]

if you choose STORE as compression, it will just put the file as is after the local file header.
You can see the start of the first local file header in the editor: PK

But doesn't GIT recognize the information after the header? When I perform commits with large FreeCAD files (300+MB), it doesn't appear to be uploading the entire file.

what do you mean by "recognize"? git does not recognize anything in files, but simply stores them as an object.
using git with large files is also not ideal, there are tools for such use cases like git annex.
but in any case, partial file uploads (do you mean git push?) should not happen.