Clone Stamp Tool not cloning transparency correctly

My clone stamp tool is not cloning transparency correctly.
I have looked at all opacity, flow, and blending setings.
Basically, what I remember from before this problem started,  is that cloning a transparent edge, or an area with some degree of transparency, and the transparency information would transfer pixel for pixel.
Now it appears that the color cloning is working correctly but the transparency information is cloning as additive.
For example, if I have a solid color square with no transparency, surrounded by tranparent area and I clone from the square into the tranparent area, it clones corectly. If I try to clone FROM the tranparent area, into the square, nothing happens. The zero opacity (transparent) information is added to the 100% opacity square and the result is no change. I would expect to create a brush shaped line of 100% transparency since my cloning stamp is set to 100% opacity.
If there is an area that is50% transparent. (Like if it had been erased at 50% opacity), then when I clone one part of the 50% transparent area onto another, instead of staying the same the tranparency goes to 100%.
I am trying to use the cloning stamp tool to modify a .png logo that contains many areas of varying transparency, and so this problem is making the editing slow going if not impossible.
I do not know how to fix this or if I inadvertantly checked/engaged some sort of setting.
Any help is appreciated.

You may be correct. I tried it on an older version of Photoshop with the same effect.
I am not sure why I thought transparency would clone rather than add the transparency.
I think it would be more effective if you could clone the transparency though, or at least choose. For example, what if I I want to clone an area with less than 100% opacity on to another area with 100% opacity, or if I want to clone an uneven edge that is opaque on one side and transparent on the other, and I want to move it into the opaque area a little further.
It seems I have done this many times, but I may just be tired and not remembering correctly.
At any rate, thanks for the quick reply.

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