Cygwin: recursive copy with ACLs or set noacl to solve file permisssion problems

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# Cygwin's cp discards ACLs (complex windows permissions). You have to copy them separately as follows:
# First copy files themselves, with timestamps:
cp -a folder1 folder2

# Set all ACLs of copies to ACLs of originals:
cd folder2
find . | while read f ; do getfacl ../folder1/"$f" | setfacl -f - "$f" ; done

# or when permissions are equal for all files / directories:
getfacl folder1 > folder-perms
getfacl folder1/file > file-perms
find folder2 -type d -exec setfacl -f folder-perms '{}' \;
find folder2 -type f -exec setfacl -f file-perms '{}' \;
# or probably faster:
find folder2 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 setfacl -f folder-perms
find folder2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 setfacl -f file-perms


(OR)
You can set noacl on etc/fstab as follows:

$ cat fstab
# For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide   
# http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

# This is default anyway:
# none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl 0 0

Sources:
http://snipplr.com/view.php?codeview&id=21820
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5828037/cygwin-sets-file-permission-to-000