Error seen on windows machines running 2.12.0.windows.1 git svn init command now has tics surrounding supplied trunk, tag, and branch locations i.e. Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --trunk='/path/to/trunk' --tags='/path/to/tags' --branches='/path/to/Branches' https://svn.repository.com/location When this command is run the tics are added to the config file values i.e. fetch = '/path/to/trunk':refs/remotes/svn/trunk This makes the paths invalid and the fetch command never finds the path in the SVN repository.