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Piston implements 'Vendor Branching' - link sections of 3rd party versioned code into your project, preserving revisions!
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Piston code import gem example
#like svn:externals, only you can update the code!!!!
#install (*nix) - easy! See http://piston.rubyforge.org/
#Assuming BASH
[sudo] gem install piston
#Usage - import remote subtree/directory to required project destination
piston import -v0 [--repository-type git|svn] <url/of/git/or/svn/repository> <destination/directory>
e.g.
piston import -v2 --repository-type svn http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ./gwt-trunk
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