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Re:Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go by djur on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @03:44PM (#8455317)
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.

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