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It's not supposed to do that unless it's newly creating the destination, or you supplied the -p flag to preserve permissions... that's what the entire issue is about; it's a bug that was fixed in 10.3.
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I wouldn't even expect it on newly created stuff without the -p flag. Normal cp doesn't do it.



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