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cp -p feature addition: preserve GID even if preserving the UID fails

From: Jim Meyering
Subject: cp -p feature addition: preserve GID even if preserving the UID fails
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:10:26 +0100 
Lasse Collin submitted a patch to make cp -p preserve group ID
even when preserving both user ID and group ID initially fails.
This can be useful when copying between users who share a common group:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=cbc06bb6390c1

Thanks a lot for the test case!
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