How far can the LO file's contents be stretched?

[Johannes Sixt]

Am 06.02.2012 09:49, schrieb Norbert Thiebaud:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 02/05/2012 09:50 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. Is the order of the files in the ZIP archive important?
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>> <http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part3.html#__RefHeading__752809_826425813>:
>> "The 'mimetype' file shall be the first file of the zip file."
> 
> you should be able to work around that by using 2 git-archive one to
> archive mimetype and another one to 'update' the zip with the rest,
> hopefully mimetype would still be in front.

Thanks for the pointer, but I'm not trying to generate a conforming
file, just something that LO can import back without loss of information.

> otehr wise you'd have to write your own git-archive, which should not
> be _that_ hard... If you serach in teh git history of git, I'm pretty
> sure at some point that was implemented as a shell script....

Nope, git-archive was always a C program. ;)

-- Hannes