mercurial-pristinetar(1)

💖 mercurial-pristinetar — the manual page bestie 💖

okay so this is mercurial-pristinetar, and she lives in your mercurial-pristinetar(1) era, literally recreating pristine source tarballs for you. no cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mercurial-pristinetar — recreate pristine source tarballs. that's the whole job, and she ate. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically she builds pristine source tarballs from the Mercurial repository that's chillin' in your current directory. main character behavior only. 👑

if you pass a version, then she recreates the tarballs for that version instead of the most recent one from debian/changelog. so like, you get to pick your era instead of letting the changelog choose for you. obsessed. 🎀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --version, -V — prints out the version and then dips. output version and exit, periodt. ✌️
• --verbose, -v — turns the verbosity level up. and the way that you can use it several times?? stacking -vs like accessories, she'll get louder every time. 🔥

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🌈 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 sitting in the current directory. look at all those compression formats, she's giving range. 🫶

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💀 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). so like, that one's lowkey not her fault, but also do not come for her about it. 😭

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Jens Peter Secher <jpsecher@gmail.com> — the icon who made all of this happen. 🌟

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

pristine-gz(1), pristine-bz2(1), pristine-xz(1), mercurial-importorig(1), mercurial-importdsc(1), mercurial-buildpackage(1), mercurial-tagversion(1), mercurial-port(1).

the whole friend group, iykyk. 💜

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and that's the page bestie!! this is mercurial-pristinetar 0.10.1, dating all the way back to December 2009 — vintage, iconic, still slaying. 🩷✨ go build something pristine fr fr. 🎀