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adb push seems to push everything into the dest folder regardless of their changed/unchanged states. So it wastes a lot of time. Is it possible to sync rather than copy (i.e. to rsync rather than cp)?

I see adb has a sync option, but I'm not quite sure whether it's relevant or not.

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When running adb without any commands, you get a list of possible commands, and here it is:

adb sync [ <directory> ]     - copy host->device only if changed
                             (see 'adb help all')

Looks pretty relevant to me :)

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Would you please give an example on how to use this? Say if I want to sync /home/abc/ on PC to /sdcard/abc/ on device. – cyker Sep 23 '12 at 5:58
Did you try adb help all? – bigbadonk420 Sep 24 '12 at 8:36
Yes. It can sync system/data partition. But I just want to sync one folder on sdcard. Do you know how to do that? – cyker Sep 24 '12 at 20:22
It is not implemented in version <= 1.0.31. – echo Jan 29 at 1:26

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