Can Git treat ZIP files as directories and files inside the ZIP as blobs?

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This doesn’t exist, but it could easily exist in the current framework. Just as Git acts differently with displaying binary or ASCII files when performing a diff, it could be told to offer special treatment to certain file types through the configuration interface.

If you don’t want to change the code base (although this is kind of a cool idea you’ve got), you could also script it for yourself by using pre-commit and post-checkout hooks to unzip and store the files, then return them to their .zip state on checkout. You would have to restrict actions to only those files blobs / indexes that are specified by git add.

Either way is a bit of work — it’s just a question of whether the other Git commands are aware of what’s going on and play nicely.

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