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In Mac OS X 10.5,
$ man zip
shows
-a
--ascii
[Systems using EBCDIC] Translate file to ASCII format.
and
Info-ZIP 16 June 2008 (v3.0) ZIP(1L)
What does it mean?
If I want to revision control some .zip files using git and hg, what options should I consider using with zip command?
As the description says, it’s only for computers that use EBCDIC. If you’ve never heard of EBCDIC, that won’t apply to you. i.e., don’t bother using
--ascii.If you’re curious, EBCDIC is a family of character encodings that are totally incompatible with ASCII, used on some IBM systems.