Darcs and vendor/rails on edge

Calling all rails darcs users! We may be in the minority,
but I'm  
sure we can still share some know how here.

Question: how are you managing your vendor/rails directory?

svn externals seems to be the preferred option for svn folk
(at least  
this is the approach recommended in the Agile 2 beta). Is
there a way  
to get the same functionality within darcs? That would seem
to be the  
ideal solution.

I've tried a few things:

Check vendor/rails into darcs
----------
This makes things very easy, but do you really want all
those files  
in your repository? Especially since with darcs it's so
easy to  
branch, and each branch is the entire repository.

Link vendor/rails to a local svn checkout of rails
----------
svn co http://dev
.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk /somewhere/rails
ln -s /somewhere/rails (run in vendor)
This works and means that at least you only need one copy of
edge  
rails. However symbolic links are not supported by darcs,
and you  
will have additional issues when deploying with capistrano
(or  
otherwise).

Please share your solutions or comments on the above.

Thanks!
-- 
Martyn

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> This makes things very easy, but do you really want all
those files in your repository? Especially since with darcs
it's so 
> easy to branch, and each branch is the entire
repository.

does it offer in-place branching or do you need to create
another directory and/or repository?

> Link vendor/rails to a local svn checkout of rails
> ----------
> svn co http://dev
.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk /somewhere/rails
> ln -s /somewhere/rails (run in vendor)
> This works and means that at least you only need one
copy of edge rails. However symbolic links are not supported
by darcs, 
> and you will have additional issues when deploying with
capistrano (or otherwise).
> 
> Please share your solutions or comments on the above.

my solution was to switch to git. heres my
.git/info/exclude:
*\#*
*.db
*.sql
log
public/images
tmp
vendor

and just symlink in markaby and rails trunk checkouts into
vendor. if darcs doesnt understand symlinks maybe you can
just ignore the vendor directory? does it support something
similar to .git/hooks/update? then you can have it fetch
svn-remote stylee..

to deploy, i git push a 'release' branch over ssh to the
server, and have a remote hook refresh mongrel_rail's
environment.. no swallows harmed..
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