Isn't it possible to track the upstream just like with svn? We use git internally but interact with third party subversion repositories. We do it by dedicating

Isn't it possible to track the upstream just like with svn? We use git internally but interact with third party subversion repositories. We do it by dedicating a branch to tracking the svn repo, use git-svn to branch and to push the commits (after rebasing). It's not perfect but after a few hurdles at the beginning it is now problem free.