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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | pristine-tar can regenerate a pristine upstream tarball using only a small
binary delta file and a revision control checkout of the upstream branch.
The package also includes a pristine-gz command, which can regenerate a
pristine .gz file, a pristine-bz2 for .bz2 files, and a pristine-xz for .xz
files.
The delta file is designed to be checked into revision control along-side the
upstream branch, thus allowing Debian packages to be built entirely using
sources in revision control, without the need to keep copies of upstream
tarballs. See `delta-format.txt` for details on the format of the delta file.
An optional upstream signature may be attached to tarballs for verification
by, for example, dpkg-source(1).
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