Note: git 2.3.0 (February 2015) supports proset with git svn.
See commit 83c9433 by Alfred Perlstein (splbio):
git-svn: support forgit-svn propsetThis change allows
git-svnto support setting subversion properties.It is useful for manually setting properties when committing to a subversion repo that requires properties to be set without requiring moving your changeset to separate subversion checkout in order to set props.
There is a nit to point out: the code does not support adding props unless there are also content changes to the files as well.
This is demonstrated in the testcase.
So, as seen in t/t9148-git-svn-propset.sh, this now works:
git svn propset "$1" "$2" "$file"
# like
git svn propset "svn:keywords" "FreeBSD=%H" "foo"