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Saving tasproj in an unzipped format #365

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Your emulator and TAStudio feature are actually awesome.

The problem : .tasproj format is a zip, if you wanna do code versioning of your 
TAS (using git or svn) it's much better getting source code over binary.
Actually i just dezip and rezip the .tasproj all the time.

It would be so cool saving directly from tastudio to a directory and load a 
project from a directory.

Thanks for your work !

Original issue reported on code.google.com by CharlesH...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2015 at 12:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The main issue I have is there is a file called Greenzone.  That uncompressed 
can become quite large quite fast.  Like 512 MegaByes big.

Original comment by hegyak on 12 Jan 2015 at 3:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
First of all, as someone who has used SVN for years for TASing, I assure you 
that a plain text or binary format is no better for version control.  Even if 
you can see a diff of input, what value does that give you?  Unlike code, input 
by itself tells you nothing.  I dont' recommend you unzip and rezip all the 
time, it isn't giving you value added.  But if you do that all the time, that's 
easily scriptable.

Our choice of file format for movie files is intended to cater to people using 
version control, it has other more important considerations, ones that trump 
this concern.

I do not intend to change the file format (or turn it into a directory based 
system)

Original comment by adeli...@tasvideos.org on 12 Jan 2015 at 3:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Okay.
Indeed input diff doesn't provide much information. It's actually frame marker 
and comments file that i use to achieve this.

As you say it's easily scriptable :)
It was really a hype wish more than a needed feature.
Thanks again for your freakin awesome emulator and your reactivity on it.

Original comment by CharlesH...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2015 at 4:17