Re:Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go
by jleader on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @02:52PM
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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 problem to sub-modules in git. So I don't think the Rubyists invented the term.
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The Subversion book covers the concept of vendor branches extensively:
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.