diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index 6b7375e25b..bc5cd52425 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -1468,7 +1468,8 @@ class DownloadStrategyDetector
       GitHubGitDownloadStrategy
     when %r{^https?://.+\.git$},
          %r{^git://},
-         %r{^https?://git\.sr\.ht/[^/]+/[^/]+$}
+         %r{^https?://git\.sr\.ht/[^/]+/[^/]+$},
+         %r{^ssh://git}
       GitDownloadStrategy
     when %r{^https?://www\.apache\.org/dyn/closer\.cgi},
          %r{^https?://www\.apache\.org/dyn/closer\.lua}
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/test/download_strategies/detector_spec.rb b/Library/Homebrew/test/download_strategies/detector_spec.rb
index 7bf0604fe7..aaf84f2784 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/test/download_strategies/detector_spec.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/test/download_strategies/detector_spec.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ RSpec.describe DownloadStrategyDetector do
       it { is_expected.to eq(GitDownloadStrategy) }
     end
 
+    context "when given SSH Git URL" do
+      let(:url) { "ssh://git@example.com/foo.git" }
+
+      it { is_expected.to eq(GitDownloadStrategy) }
+    end
+
     context "when given a GitHub Git URL" do
       let(:url) { "https://github.com/homebrew/brew.git" }