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<h2><a name="get">Sync</a></h2>
<p><em>Since Ant 1.6</em></p>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Synchronize a target directory from the files defined in one or
more filesets.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">todir</td>
<td valign="top">the target directory to sync with the filesets</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">overwrite</td>
<td valign="top">Overwrite existing files even if the destination
files are newer.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
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<td valign="top">includeEmptyDirs</td>
<td valign="top">Copy any empty directories included in the FileSet(s).
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<td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
when one of the nested filesets points to a directory that
doesn't exist.
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<td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
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<td valign="top">verbose</td>
<td valign="top">Log the files that are being copied.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
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<td valign="top">granularity</td>
<td valign="top">The number of milliseconds leeway to give before
deciding a file is out of date. This is needed because not every
file system supports tracking the last modified time to the
millisecond level. Default is 0 milliseconds, or 2 seconds on DOS
systems. This can also be useful if source and target files live
on separate machines with clocks being out of sync. <em>since Ant
1.6</em>.</td>
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<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>fileset</h4>
<p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are used to select
sets of files and directories.</p>
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