diff --git a/gcl.py b/gcl.py
index f936345c16..69dedb8ee2 100755
--- a/gcl.py
+++ b/gcl.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ from scm import SVN
 import fix_encoding
 import gclient_utils
 import presubmit_support
+import subprocess2
 
 __version__ = '1.2'
 
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ def GetCachedFile(filename, max_age=60*60*24*3, use_root=False):
     # First we check if we have a cached version.
     try:
       cached_file = os.path.join(GetCacheDir(), filename)
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       return None
     if (not os.path.exists(cached_file) or
         (time.time() - os.stat(cached_file).st_mtime) > max_age):
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ def GetCachedFile(filename, max_age=60*60*24*3, use_root=False):
             # Exit the loop if the file was found. Override content.
             content = '\n'.join(content_array)
             break
-          except gclient_utils.Error:
+          except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
             if content_array[0].startswith(
                 'svn: Can\'t get username or password'):
               ErrorExit('Your svn credentials expired. Please run svn update '
@@ -1425,7 +1426,7 @@ def main(argv):
 
   try:
     GetRepositoryRoot()
-  except gclient_utils.Error:
+  except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
     print >> sys.stderr, 'To use gcl, you need to be in a subversion checkout.'
     return 1
 
@@ -1443,7 +1444,7 @@ def main(argv):
       return command(argv[1:])
     # Unknown command, try to pass that to svn
     return CMDpassthru(argv)
-  except gclient_utils.Error, e:
+  except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError), e:
     print >> sys.stderr, 'Got an exception'
     print >> sys.stderr, str(e)
     return 1
diff --git a/gclient.py b/gclient.py
index e63f85abd0..9a678220f1 100644
--- a/gclient.py
+++ b/gclient.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ import fix_encoding
 import gclient_scm
 import gclient_utils
 from third_party.repo.progress import Progress
+import subprocess2
 
 
 def attr(attribute, data):
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ class Dependency(GClientKeywords, gclient_utils.WorkItem):
     try:
       gclient_utils.CheckCallAndFilterAndHeader(
           command, cwd=self.root_dir(), always=True)
-    except gclient_utils.Error, e:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError), e:
       # Use a discrete exit status code of 2 to indicate that a hook action
       # failed.  Users of this script may wish to treat hook action failures
       # differently from VC failures.
@@ -1261,7 +1262,7 @@ def Main(argv):
     # Not a known command. Default to help.
     GenUsage(parser, 'help')
     return CMDhelp(parser, argv)
-  except gclient_utils.Error, e:
+  except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError), e:
     print >> sys.stderr, 'Error: %s' % str(e)
     return 1
 
diff --git a/gclient_scm.py b/gclient_scm.py
index 30e604dd7e..6dc4da7f60 100644
--- a/gclient_scm.py
+++ b/gclient_scm.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ import re
 import sys
 import time
 
-import scm
 import gclient_utils
+import scm
+import subprocess2
 
 
 class DiffFilterer(object):
@@ -495,7 +496,7 @@ class GitWrapper(SCMWrapper):
       try:
         self._Run(clone_cmd, options, cwd=self._root_dir)
         break
-      except gclient_utils.Error, e:
+      except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError), e:
         # TODO(maruel): Hackish, should be fixed by moving _Run() to
         # CheckCall().
         # Too bad we don't have access to the actual output.
@@ -750,7 +751,7 @@ class SVNWrapper(SCMWrapper):
     # Get the existing scm url and the revision number of the current checkout.
     try:
       from_info = scm.SVN.CaptureInfo(os.path.join(self.checkout_path, '.'))
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       raise gclient_utils.Error(
           ('Can\'t update/checkout %s if an unversioned directory is present. '
            'Delete the directory and try again.') % self.checkout_path)
@@ -772,7 +773,7 @@ class SVNWrapper(SCMWrapper):
       # The repository url changed, need to switch.
       try:
         to_info = scm.SVN.CaptureInfo(url)
-      except gclient_utils.Error:
+      except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
         # The url is invalid or the server is not accessible, it's safer to bail
         # out right now.
         raise gclient_utils.Error('This url is unreachable: %s' % url)
@@ -889,7 +890,7 @@ class SVNWrapper(SCMWrapper):
     """Display revision"""
     try:
       return scm.SVN.CaptureRevision(self.checkout_path)
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       return None
 
   def runhooks(self, options, args, file_list):
diff --git a/scm.py b/scm.py
index 4dc27d081f..f0fa40fcb8 100644
--- a/scm.py
+++ b/scm.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import time
 import xml.dom.minidom
 
 import gclient_utils
+import subprocess2
+
 
 def ValidateEmail(email):
   return (re.match(r"^[a-zA-Z0-9._%-+]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._%-]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$", email)
@@ -270,25 +272,25 @@ class GIT(object):
     try:
       upstream_branch = GIT.Capture(
           ['config', 'branch.%s.merge' % branch], cwd=cwd).strip()
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       upstream_branch = None
     if upstream_branch:
       try:
         remote = GIT.Capture(
             ['config', 'branch.%s.remote' % branch], cwd=cwd).strip()
-      except gclient_utils.Error:
+      except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
         pass
     else:
       try:
         upstream_branch = GIT.Capture(
             ['config', 'rietveld.upstream-branch'], cwd=cwd).strip()
-      except gclient_utils.Error:
+      except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
         upstream_branch = None
       if upstream_branch:
         try:
           remote = GIT.Capture(
               ['config', 'rietveld.upstream-remote'], cwd=cwd).strip()
-        except gclient_utils.Error:
+        except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
           pass
       else:
         # Fall back on trying a git-svn upstream branch.
@@ -459,7 +461,7 @@ class SVN(object):
             always=verbose,
             filter_fn=CaptureMatchingLines,
             stdout=stdout)
-      except gclient_utils.Error:
+      except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
         def IsKnownFailure():
           for x in failure:
             if (x.startswith('svn: OPTIONS of') or
@@ -659,7 +661,7 @@ class SVN(object):
     """
     try:
       return SVN.Capture(['propget', property_name, filename])
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       return ''
 
   @staticmethod
@@ -840,7 +842,7 @@ class SVN(object):
     """Retrieves the svn account which we assume is an email address."""
     try:
       infos = SVN.CaptureInfo(repo_root)
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       return None
 
     # Should check for uuid but it is incorrectly saved for https creds.
@@ -902,7 +904,7 @@ class SVN(object):
       info = SVN.CaptureInfo(directory)
       cur_dir_repo_root = info['Repository Root']
       url = info['URL']
-    except gclient_utils.Error:
+    except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
       return None
     while True:
       parent = os.path.dirname(directory)
@@ -912,7 +914,7 @@ class SVN(object):
             info['URL'] != os.path.dirname(url)):
           break
         url = info['URL']
-      except gclient_utils.Error:
+      except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError):
         break
       directory = parent
     return GetCasedPath(directory)
diff --git a/tests/gcl_unittest.py b/tests/gcl_unittest.py
index b31aa45b43..e634aef938 100755
--- a/tests/gcl_unittest.py
+++ b/tests/gcl_unittest.py
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ class GclUnittest(GclTestsBase):
         'gclient_utils', 'getpass',
         'json', 'main', 'need_change', 'need_change_and_args', 'no_args',
         'optparse', 'os', 'presubmit_support', 'random', 're',
-        'string', 'subprocess', 'sys', 'tempfile', 'time', 'upload',
-        'urllib2',
+        'string', 'subprocess', 'subprocess2', 'sys', 'tempfile', 'time',
+        'upload', 'urllib2',
     ]
     # If this test fails, you should add the relevant test.
     self.compareMembers(gcl, members)
diff --git a/tests/scm_unittest.py b/tests/scm_unittest.py
index 155d11ae7e..bd2e1485f8 100755
--- a/tests/scm_unittest.py
+++ b/tests/scm_unittest.py
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ class RootTestCase(BaseSCMTestCase):
     members = [
         'GetCasedPath', 'GenFakeDiff', 'GIT', 'SVN', 'ValidateEmail',
         'cStringIO', 'determine_scm', 'gclient_utils', 'glob', 'logging', 'os',
-        're', 'shutil', 'subprocess', 'sys', 'tempfile', 'time', 'xml',
+        're', 'shutil', 'subprocess', 'subprocess2', 'sys', 'tempfile', 'time',
+        'xml',
     ]
     # If this test fails, you should add the relevant test.
     self.compareMembers(scm, members)
diff --git a/tests/trychange_unittest.py b/tests/trychange_unittest.py
index f7ba76da71..5575d4be43 100755
--- a/tests/trychange_unittest.py
+++ b/tests/trychange_unittest.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class TryChangeUnittest(TryChangeTestsBase):
       'breakpad', 'datetime', 'errno', 'fix_encoding', 'gcl', 'gclient_utils',
       'getpass',
       'json', 'logging', 'optparse', 'os', 'posixpath', 're', 'scm', 'shutil',
-      'sys', 'tempfile', 'urllib',
+      'subprocess2', 'sys', 'tempfile', 'urllib',
     ]
     # If this test fails, you should add the relevant test.
     self.compareMembers(trychange, members)
diff --git a/trychange.py b/trychange.py
index 003f040b26..1cfe583e5a 100755
--- a/trychange.py
+++ b/trychange.py
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ import gcl
 import fix_encoding
 import gclient_utils
 import scm
+import subprocess2
+
 
 __version__ = '1.2'
 
@@ -758,7 +760,7 @@ def TryChange(argv,
       return 1
     print >> sys.stderr, e
     return 1
-  except gclient_utils.Error, e:
+  except (gclient_utils.Error, subprocess2.CalledProcessError), e:
     print >> sys.stderr, e
     return 1
   return 0