diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index 3eed77ddf4..5380b4a59a 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -566,12 +566,12 @@ def detect_download_strategy url
     # Standard URLs
   when %r[^bzr://] then BazaarDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^git://] then GitDownloadStrategy
+  when %r[^https?://.+\.git$] then GitDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^hg://] then MercurialDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^svn://] then SubversionDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^svn\+http://] then SubversionDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^fossil://] then FossilDownloadStrategy
     # Some well-known source hosts
-  when %r[^https?://github\.com/.+\.git$] then GitDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^https?://(.+?\.)?googlecode\.com/hg] then MercurialDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^https?://(.+?\.)?googlecode\.com/svn] then SubversionDownloadStrategy
   when %r[^https?://(.+?\.)?sourceforge\.net/svnroot/] then SubversionDownloadStrategy