Recursive N-way merge/diff algorithm for directory trees?
- by BobMcGee
What algorithms or Java libraries are available to do N-way, recursive diff/merge of directories?
I need to be able to generate a list of folder trees that have many identical files, and have subdirectories with many similar files. I want to be able to use 2-way merge operations to quickly remove as much redundancy as possible.
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