using git to clone a CodePlex project that uses SVN

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I have a project hosted in CodePlex, I chose SVN when I created this project. Now I try to use Git to clone this project.

I tried: "git svn clone the_url"

But it just hangs forever. It did not ask me for username or password or anything, just hangs.

Any idea how to get this to work?

Are you able to checkout the code from that location via SVN? — Peter Bratton, Sep 21 '12 at 14:20
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1239577/git-and-svn-on-windows — Peter Bratton, Sep 26 '12 at 13:44
2015 and SVN on Codeplex still sucks. That would explain the tumbleweeds. — CAD bloke, Jan 22 '15 at 11:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Have a look at this answer regarding git svn and CodePlex. There are multiple possibilities, including SSL certificates, and CodePlex just responding slowly to the massive SVN fetch that git svn clone requires.

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I have the same problem with https://v8dotnet.codeplex.com/. It hangs for very long time and times out later without any certificate error. I am actually trying to create a fork on GitHub. Any help is appreciated. – Sergiy Belozorov Aug 19 '13 at 08:51

using git to clone a CodePlex project that uses SVN

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