Created attachment 1403 [details] Add the -E option to scp. Attached are two patches for building OpenSSH 4.7p1 on Mac OS X. These patches add the -E option to scp , which preserves HFS+ extended attributes.
Created attachment 1404 [details] Preserve Extended Attribute mtime.
The command line options are effectively part of the scp protocol (such as it is) and we have no plans to change that. http://openssh.com/faq.html#2.10
closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release