Add support for zlib format #4578
Open
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
This is the compression frame and a checksum, without the gzip
header. It is used by for instance git objects, and is in zlib.
It is similar to the lzma frames being included in the xz support.
There are no real .zlib files, but it made testing more consistent.
I love how
zstdcathas transparent support also for legacy gz and xz files. And that it supports lzma (and lz4)I was playing around with
.git/objects, and wished that it would support those as well. So I added it, to zstd...It is just a few magic bytes and a parameter, the support was already included in the zlib library since before.
Added a .zlib extension to match the others, but it is not really a stand-alone file format (use .gz for that)
PS. Yes, I know I could have used
git cat-fileas well.