Project Summary
pristine-tar can regenerate a pristine upstream tarball using only a small binary delta file and a copy of the source which can be a revision control
checkout.
The package also includes a pristine-gz command, which can regenerate a pristine .gz file.
The delta file is designed to be checked into revision control along-side the source code, thus allowing the original tarball to be extracted from
revision control.
In a Nutshell, pristine-tar...
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took an estimated 3 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2007
ending with its most recent commit almost 2 years ago
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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