Vendor branch in svk

• Your project requires Acme-Colour

% tar xfz Acme-Colour-1.00.tar.gz -C /tmp
% svk import -m "import 1.00" //vendor/acme-colour /tmp/Acme-Colour-1.00
% svk cp -m "take acme-colour 1.00" //vendor/acme-colour //project/src/acme-colour

% svk co //project
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• You make some local modification to src/acme-colour

• Now 1.02 is released

% tar xfz Acme-Colour-1.02.tar.gz -C /tmp
% svk import -m "import 1.02" //vendor/acme-colour /tmp/Acme-Colour-1.02
% svk pull //project/src/acme-colour # vendor merge

You will see how conflict resolution works later