On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
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> On 2008-06-10 10:07:25 +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>
>> How about adding in '.tar' decompression as well, -after- the '.gz'
>> decompression? That way you can have .tar.gz's and still be fine.
>
> A tar file would presumably contain more than one patch -- it'd be
> more like a directory of patches than a single patch file.

Why?
$ tar czvf mypatch.patch.tar.gz mypatch.patch

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> I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to support it, but it's not what
> the original poster needed, and building it would be a bunch of extra
> work.

A bunch of extra work? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html
I say it'd be about as much work as the original patch ;).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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