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Transfer of selected items vs transfer of dependencies

In addition to items that are explicitly selected for export, an export may also include items on which that item depends: its dependencies. For example, a Component depends on a Schema, so if a Component is selected for export, then by default, its Schema is also exported. However, the import behavior for explicitly selected items is different than for dependencies.

The difference is that if an explicitly selected item is found to be already present on the destination Content Manager, it will be updated to contain the contents of the import item. But if a dependency is found to be already present on the destination Content Manager, it will not be updated at all. That is, dependencies can only be imported as new items.