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).
