Directory comparison in Meld but ignoring changes that only involve file timestamp?

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Published on 2010-03-17T17:19:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 17:31 UTC
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I'm using Meld to compare two directories of source code on Ubuntu.

However, because all of the files in one of the directories have been 'touched' so that all of their timestamps were updated, Meld is showing them as different, even though the contents of the files have not changed. But I'm only trying to find files that have different content. I don't see an option to get Meld just to look at changed contents. Any ideas for how to do this in Meld or is there a better GUI directory comparison tool for Ubuntu?

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