Rails - Sep 2008 - externals project: a way to do svn:externals -like actions with any combo of SCMs

I''ve just finished my first release of an open source project for
doing svn:externals -like actions/deployment with any combination of
subprojects managed under different source control management systems.

I have several projects, some of which are managed under subversion,
and some managed under git.  What''s worse, is each project has several
subprojects (rails plugins, perhaps a vendor/rails), half of which are
managed under git the other half under svn.

I really miss using the svn:externals feature of subversion for
managing subprojects.  svn:externals allowed me to have your
subprojects be managed by a different repository than your main
project.  Doing a checkout/export automatically checks out/exports the
subprojects.  Doing a status will show you if any modified files in
subprojects.

ext allows you to use this same workflow with any combination of
source control management systems.

I have written a tutorial for ext at http://nopugs.com/ext-tutorial
The source code is also available at
http://github.com/azimux/externals

It should be pretty easy to install and play with and is quite feature-complete

This is my first ever attempt at contributing an open source project
to the community.  Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated :)
 I started this project out of necessity to get around the annoyances
of using git/svn together for managing and deplying projects with
subprojects, and think it could be really beneficial to other
programmers.

Thanks,
Miles

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