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Rsync-like hash comparison for copy conflicts?

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Rsync has a way to compare files and only copy if they are different. Would we be able to do something similar in Files? It would significantly speed up the case when copying large amounts of files between drives, i.e. for backups.

If a file hash isn't something we can compare, at least comparing modified date and size would get us most of the way there.

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