I'm doing a svn to git migration using git svn. I have now done the migration from svn to git and I have created local git branches for each remote ref. But my problem is if there are commits to svn to a particular branch (eg: trunk) after the migration I thought I could use git svn fetch. which actually works fine. but when I do that only the remote refs are getting updated. As I said I have created local branches using, for b in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/remotes); do git branch $b refs/remotes/$b && git branch -D -r $b; done when i do the fetch my local branches aren't getting updated. Is there a work around to do that. Also I noticed in the migration svn's trunk is mapped to git's master branch. So my latest commits to svn trunk arent getting mapped git's master branch when I do git svn fetch. instead of it's updating remote ref of trunk branch in git. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29161646/incremental-migration-from-svn-to-git I was following this thread which is where I learned about git svn fetch. Appreciate if anyone could help on this