Question

When doing git svn init, the fetch ref will always be :refs/remotes/git-svn. This can be changed by hand, but in the hope of automating git as much as possible, it would be great if there was a command-line option that changes this value to something else.

E.g. running this:

git svn init url1 -R r1

populates .git/config with:

[svn-remote "r1"]
    url = url1
    fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn

Is there an option to force the fetch line to something like:

[svn-remote "r1]
    url = url1
    fetch = :refs/remotes/branch1

Answer 1

I suspect the only way would be to write a script that calls git svn init and then git config.