mercurial-pristinetar(1)

mercurial-pristinetar1

Recreate pristine source tarballs.

Usage

mercurial-pristinetar [option] ... [version]

Overview

Build pristine source tarballs from the Mercurial repository in the current directory. If version is specified, then tarballs for that version is recreated instead of the most recent from from debian/changelog.

Options

--version, -V

Output version and exit.

--verbose, -v

Increase verbosity level. Can be used several times.

Examples

mercurial-pristinetar 1.2.3

Create pristine ../mypack_1.2.3.orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma,xz} and ../mypack_1.2.3.orig-component*.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma,xz} if applicable from the repository in the current directory.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0
  2. 9–12

Bugs

Generating tarballs compressed by lzma(1) might not end up being identical to the original because the pristine-tar(1) suite does not have support for lzma(1).

Author

Jens Peter Secher <[email protected]>

From mercurial-buildpackage 0.10.2 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.