diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 15273bf0..0ca4d0dc 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ repos:
     - id: pyupgrade
       args: [--py37-plus]
 - repo: https://github.com/tox-dev/pyproject-fmt
-  rev: "0.8.0"
+  rev: "0.9.2"
   hooks:
     - id: pyproject-fmt
 
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: 'v1.0.1'
+    rev: 'v1.1.1'
     hooks:
     -   id: mypy
         args: [--strict]
diff --git a/nextgen/vcs-versioning/pyproject.toml b/nextgen/vcs-versioning/pyproject.toml
index c7e50972..a48dc5ad 100644
--- a/nextgen/vcs-versioning/pyproject.toml
+++ b/nextgen/vcs-versioning/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ Documentation = "https://github.com/unknown/vcs-versioning#readme"
 Issues = "https://github.com/unknown/vcs-versioning/issues"
 Source = "https://github.com/unknown/vcs-versioning"
 
-
 [tool.hatch.version]
 path = "vcs_versioning/__about__.py"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c8a4baa6..48f1c8b5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,37 +53,28 @@ test = [
 ]
 toml = [
 ]
-
 [project.urls]
 repository = "https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/"
-
 [project.entry-points."distutils.setup_keywords"]
 use_scm_version = "setuptools_scm.integration:version_keyword"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools.file_finders"]
 setuptools_scm = "setuptools_scm._file_finders:find_files"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools.finalize_distribution_options"]
 setuptools_scm = "setuptools_scm.integration:infer_version"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools_scm.files_command"]
 ".git" = "setuptools_scm._file_finders.git:git_find_files"
 ".hg" = "setuptools_scm._file_finders.hg:hg_find_files"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools_scm.files_command_fallback"]
 ".git_archival.txt" = "setuptools_scm._file_finders.git:git_archive_find_files"
 ".hg_archival.txt" = "setuptools_scm._file_finders.hg:hg_archive_find_files"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools_scm.local_scheme"]
 dirty-tag = "setuptools_scm.version:get_local_dirty_tag"
 no-local-version = "setuptools_scm.version:get_no_local_node"
 node-and-date = "setuptools_scm.version:get_local_node_and_date"
 node-and-timestamp = "setuptools_scm.version:get_local_node_and_timestamp"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools_scm.parse_scm"]
 ".git" = "setuptools_scm.git:parse"
 ".hg" = "setuptools_scm.hg:parse"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools_scm.parse_scm_fallback"]
 ".git_archival.txt" = "setuptools_scm.git:parse_archival"
 ".hg_archival.txt" = "setuptools_scm.hg:parse_archival"
@@ -91,7 +82,6 @@ PKG-INFO = "setuptools_scm.hacks:parse_pkginfo"
 pip-egg-info = "setuptools_scm.hacks:parse_pip_egg_info"
 "pyproject.toml" = "setuptools_scm.hacks:fallback_version"
 "setup.py" = "setuptools_scm.hacks:fallback_version"
-
 [project.entry-points."setuptools_scm.version_scheme"]
 "calver-by-date" = "setuptools_scm.version:calver_by_date"
 "guess-next-dev" = "setuptools_scm.version:guess_next_dev_version"
@@ -100,8 +90,6 @@ pip-egg-info = "setuptools_scm.hacks:parse_pip_egg_info"
 "python-simplified-semver" = "setuptools_scm.version:simplified_semver_version"
 "release-branch-semver" = "setuptools_scm.version:release_branch_semver_version"
 
-
-
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]
 version = {attr = "scm_hack_build_backend.dynamic_version"}
 
diff --git a/src/setuptools_scm/utils.py b/src/setuptools_scm/utils.py
index 09d8af78..6788f232 100644
--- a/src/setuptools_scm/utils.py
+++ b/src/setuptools_scm/utils.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import logging
+import subprocess
 import sys
 import warnings
 from types import CodeType
@@ -16,6 +18,8 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from . import _types as _t
 
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class _CmdResult(NamedTuple):
     out: str
@@ -54,10 +58,15 @@ def function_has_arg(fn: object | FunctionType, argname: str) -> bool:
 def has_command(name: str, args: list[str] | None = None, warn: bool = True) -> bool:
     try:
         cmd = [name, "help"] if args is None else [name, *args]
-        p = _run_cmd.run(cmd, ".")
+        p = _run_cmd.run(cmd, cwd=".", timeout=5)
     except OSError:
         _trace.trace(*sys.exc_info())
         res = False
+    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as e:
+        log.info(e)
+        _trace.trace(e)
+        res = False
+
     else:
         res = not p.returncode
     if not res and warn: