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preserve permissions?

From
Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
Date
May 4, 2010, 12:29 UTC
Message-ID
<C1288762-C750-4919-A853-5E3229870A59@btinternet.com>
git clone ../xsl-test/
the original has a single directory, owner _www, and a few files.
however the clone directory has owner Me.
what is the reason permissions are not preserved?
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
testing git before moving a development project to git for production
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