[chef] source repositories as resources?

[<ian.ragsdale@gmail.com>]

Hello all.  One of the things that I'd like chef to be able to do is check out
a certain version of our source to be installed.  This makes more sense to me
than using something like Capistrano to maintain the correct version of the
source.

I'm sure that I could use a script to do this, but it seems like it would make
more sense to have Chef treat a source repository as a resource, which could
have providers for git, subversion, etc.  Then you could easily set a
repository URL, authentication info, and revision numbers or branches, etc.

Is anybody else using chef to manage a source repository?  How are other 
people
handling this?

Thanks,
Ian