What should I do with the vendor directory with respect to subversion?

Question

So I have a problem. I checked in my frozen gems and rails even though you aren't supposed to do that. I figured it was easy and wouldn't be that big of a deal anyway. Well, later I updated rails and in doing so deleted all the .svn files in the vendor/rails directories. I have heard that what I really should do is just do something to do with svn:externals to my vendor directory. What exactly do I need to do and will capistrano still use my frozen gems if they aren't in my repo? If it will not use my frozen gems how can I regenerate those .svn files correctly, because this will happen again.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Personally, I'm partial to using Piston to manage the vendor directory.