Vendor branches

Little time ago had a little struggle with vendor branches. Red-book describes this concept pretty good, but command line interface is not my favourite (in this particular situation) when it comes to merging.
Preconditions: Eclipse, Subclipse, svn-load (or svn_load_dirs is equivalent, but i'm using Ubuntu and svn-load can be installed from default repositories)
Here's my example:

1. update vendor version

   svn update /path/to/vendor

2. copy updated version to another folder (we'll need to disconnect it from SVN)

   cp -r /path/to/vendor /path/to/vendor_copy
   

3. disconnect folder from SVN

   rm -fr `find /path/to/vendor_copy -type d -name .svn`
   

4. Send changes to SVN with svn-load:
   

   svn-load -t tags/vendor_version_2009-02-01 \
   http://svn.mydomain.com/projectX \
   branches/vendor \
   /path/to/vendor_copy

   * I prefer tagging each vendor import
   
5. In Eclipse be sure that you've committed all changes and you're working in trunk
   
6. Merge new tag and previous one:
   
7. in Team Synchronizing perspective double check all changes (this perspective is really useful for merging)
   
8. commit!

Hope this helps!