CVS忽略.git文件夹

Question

I was trying to synchronize my local git repository to a CVS repository and everything gets synchronized properly, except for the .git folder.

At first, I thought all folders starting with a dot would be ignored, so I tried adding a .test folder and putting mock files in it. To my surprise, it is detected as a new folder, and the files inside of it are listed and ready to be synchronized.

How do I make CVS sync the .git folder? Thank you.

PS I use git locally to keep track of individual changes, and CVS for major milestones. They don't have to be linked in any form.

Answer 1

You definitely do not want the .git folder itself to be synced "as is" to your CVS repository.

When using git, the .git folder contains the version information, eg the content of all versions of all files in the repository (in a compressed format).

When you are syncing, the information in .git is used to populate the version control information in CVS. But CVS cannot read the information in the .git folder directly.

Syncing content of .git so that it would be visible in CVS would only be confusing (and dangerous if you tried to "sync back" that content to git, overwriting the contents of the .git folder in git).