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Make it possible to pass `--sdist <path-to-sdist>` to avoid (re)building an sdist
This would be useful for development workflows where an sdist has been generated already -- instead of rebuilding the sdist in check-manifest again, it would make workflows quicker if it were possible to pass check-manifest an argument to use an already-created sdist.
Thing is, check-manifest builds an sdist twice:
- once directly in the source tree
- once in a temporary directory with a clean copy of the source files
and then compares both to each other, and to the list of files in the VCS.
When the user provides an already-built sdist, should it be considered a direct one, or a clean one, or should there be two command line options?