Comment 2 for bug 1946214

> If it helps, there's an import option to skip pristine-tar. I forget the
> name, but if -h doesn't list it try inspecting parse_args in
> importer.py.

It worked well enough for me to use it, I only filed this since I want
all edge cases documented for better coordination on a v1.x down the
road and towards the vision of importing universe.