Is it possible to have SVN vendor branch in a git repository?

I'm having a local project and I want to use a git repository as versioning software.

As I'm using an external software on a SVN server as base for my project I think the best way is to have it as a vendor branch in my git project so external changes don't affect my code and I can merge the vendor branch in the main trunk from time to time.

Is it possible to mix git and SVN like this? What is the best开发者_开发问答 project layout and how do I actually merge the vendor branch in the main trunk?

Look at git-svn, it is precisely for this use case.

I now did it like this:

How do I import a third party lib into git?