[darcs-users] zlib and patch crc errors: an update

[Petr Rockai]

Eric Kow writes:
> One thought which occurred to me is that having files in pristine
> which are compressed by darcs could be unfortunate if the user
> happens to store files which are gzipped for whatever reason.

Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> writes:
> Yeah, agreed. It would be even worse if the user had some reason for storing
> gzipped files with corrupted CRCs that we then went on to "fix"...

A non-problem, since files in pristine are *always* gzipped counterparts of the
files in working. Which means any gzipped files in working are doubly-gzipped
in pristine. Only the outer gzip would ever get touched by darcs.

Yours,
   Petr.

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