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I remember reading about "vendor" branches in the cvs documentation (probably in the early 2000s), which if I recall correctly were trying to solve a similar pr
by jleader 12y ago
I remember reading about "vendor" branches in the cvs documentation (probably in the early 2000s), which if I recall correctly were trying to solve a similar problem to sub-modules in git. So I don't think the Rubyists invented the term.
- djur 12y agoThe Subversion book covers the concept of vendor branches extensively: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.vendorbr.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.vendorbr.htm... That's where I first read the term, but it predates svn. As far as I know, it's been the common term for committing external dependencies to your own VCS for as long as there's been such a thing as a VCS.