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added docs for if_different option #2186

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Expand Up @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ The ``self.copy()`` method inside ``imports()`` supports the following arguments

.. code-block:: python

def copy(pattern, dst="", src="", root_package=None, folder=False, ignore_case=True, excludes=None, keep_path=True)
def copy(pattern, dst="", src="", root_package=None, folder=False, ignore_case=True, excludes=None, keep_path=True, if_different=True)

Parameters:
- **pattern** (Required): An fnmatch file pattern of the files that should be copied.
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copy, even if they match the main ``pattern``.
- **keep_path** (Optional, Defaulted to ``True``): Means if you want to keep the relative path when you copy the files from the **src**
folder to the **dst** one. Useful to ignore (``keep_path=False``) path of *library.dll* files in the package it is imported from.
- **if_different** (Optional, Defaulted to ``True``): If enabled, no copy will be performed if destination file already exist and it is the same as the source file.

Example to collect license files from dependencies:

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