Subject: Re: bug#14972: cp docs should mention permissions result when destination already exists

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:50:31 +0100

Better to be explicit I suppose.
How about:

-In the absence of this option, each destination file is created with the
+In the absence of this option, the permissions of existing destination
+files are unchanged, while each new file is created with the
 mode bits of the corresponding source file, minus the bits set in the
 umask and minus the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits.
 @xref{File permissions}.

thanks,
Pádraig.