Feature request: Ability for fuse-zip to work on multiple zip files.

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 40

Hi Alexander

I have a suggestion for an extension to the fuse-zip.

I have a usecase, where i have a lot of binary blobs (zipfiles) that i want to run
version control on. What i would like to request is an extension to fuse-zip, so that
I can mount a folder full of zip files, and create a "subfolder" without the file extension,
that contains the unzipped contents.

so for example:

folder zipfiles contains - word1.docx presentation1.pptx other-compressed-file.other
random.txt
mounted on /zip, ls would produce:

word1/content.xml word1/content2.xml
presentation/content.xml presentation/content2.xml
other-compressed-file/...

This would then work for the specified the extension list in the mount options, and
ignore everything else in the mounted folder.

This way i can use the fuse fs to load the doc files in the native tool, while also
allowing git to manage the blob contents with diff and merge. It might also be useful
to make the zipfile visible in the file-system

word1.docx word1/content.xml word1/content2.xml
presentation.pptx presentation/content.xml presentation/content2.xml
other-compressed-file.other other-compressed-file/...

or the other way around, so if i copy a folder, it will create a new copy of the source
zip:

cp -r word1 word2 
generates a word2.docx file in the mounted folder

regards,

Tim.

Reported by tim.ocallaghan on 2014-01-07 15:30:52