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https://github.com/KirillOsenkov/ContentSync/releases/download/v1.0/ContentSync.exe

Usage: ContentSync.exe <Source> <Destination>

**Important!** Use at your own risk.

## Overview

Suppose you need to sync the contents of two large folders, Source and Destination. Normally ```robocopy *.* Source Destination /MIR``` does the job. However even if the byte content of a file didn't change, but the timestamp did, robocopy will copy the file and change the timestamp of the destination to match the source.
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This tool synchronizes the directories based on file contents and ignores timestamps completely.

Usage: ContentSync.exe <Source> <Destination>

## Important! Use at your own risk. I bear no responsibility for any damage done by this tool.

## How it works
It's quite simple. First it diffs the source and destination directories and builds a flat list of files
1) present only on the left,
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