Software developer, musician and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Having moved to git for managing my Rails projects and git submodules for Rails plugins and vendor/rails, I decided to create git mirrors for a couple of plugins whose maintainers use subversion.
If you have a Rails project in a git repository, you might do
git submodule add git://repo.or.cz/has_many_polymorphs.git vendor/plugins/has_many_polymorphs
git submodule add git://repo.or.cz/acts_as_ferret.git vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret
and perhaps
git submodule add git://git.sanityinc.com/rails.git vendor/rails
followed by
git submodule init
git submodule update