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diff --git a/doc/todo/Deduplicate_archive___40__i.e._zip__41___files/comment_1_619840f2337b018ff165565325cf1a61._comment b/doc/todo/Deduplicate_archive___40__i.e._zip__41___files/comment_1_619840f2337b018ff165565325cf1a61._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..19548edb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Deduplicate_archive___40__i.e._zip__41___files/comment_1_619840f2337b018ff165565325cf1a61._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.7" + subject="comment 1" + date="2014-08-12T19:51:38Z" + content=""" +All you need to do is unzip your zip file, and then `git annex add` or `git annex import` its contents. It will then automatically deduplicate. + +Due to the way compression works, two zip (or gz) files with identical contents but different checksums are unlikely to share many bytes in common. So git-annex cannot help with de-duplicating unless you unzip them. +"""]] |