Compression of SVG(Z)s in git repositories

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 13:50:01 Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 September 2014 13:35:00 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 16:50:35 Elias Probst wrote:
> > > On 09/02/2014 12:48 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > >
> > > Exactly. This might make sense to be placed in ECM to avoid duplication
> > > of this functionality all over the place.
> > >
> > > What I forgot to mention in my initial mail:
> > > This should be only enforced by the git push hook for newly added files,
> > > so a quick change to an existing file doesn't require one to rename it
> > > etc.
> >
> > I wonder if the compression is simply using zip, or if one would need
> > inkscape to compress the SVG to SVGZ. In the latter case, we'd have to add
> > inkscape to our build requirements, which is not something that sounds
> > desirable to me.
> 
> SVGZ is just a gzipped .svg file: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Compression

Alright, thanks, both.
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sebas

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