Why does "git svn fetch" command seem to be stuck and does nothing?

It becomes verbose after fetching the first relevant commit.

But until it fetches that commit, you can ensure the command is working properly by checking the .git\svn\.metadata file. The lines branches-maxRev = 123 and tags-maxRev = 123 will keep updating and increasing their numbers as it works.

For those who were not satisfied with the solution above :

ISSUE : svn+ssh://svn.xxxxxxx.com/svnroot/strategy/products/mysoftware hangs on :

Initialized empty Git repository in [MyLocalRepositoryPath]

SOLUTION: Insert

username@

in front of svn url

svn+ssh://[email protected]/svnroot/strategy/products/mysoftware

Try adding the --log-window-size=5000 parameter.

If the repo has a large number of commits, git-svn will go through them 100 at a time by default. Bumping that up can increase its speed tremendously.

In case of using Git for Windows, make sure to upgrade from 2.20.1 to either previous (2.20.0), next (2.21.0) or any other. Mentioned version has a bug making "git svn fetch" hang, which was later fixed.