From e38ec77de8077658d2f75fd6ff8b0f0f06babda9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:06:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Interpret all file:// URIs as Git repositories

---
 src/libexpr/primops/flakeref.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/flakeref.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/flakeref.cc
index 639313f21..a2700f102 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/flakeref.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/flakeref.cc
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ FlakeRef::FlakeRef(const std::string & uri)
         data = d;
     }
 
-    else if (std::regex_match(uri.c_str(), match, uriRegex) && hasSuffix(match[4], ".git")) {
+    else if (std::regex_match(uri.c_str(), match, uriRegex)
+        && (match[2] == "file" || hasSuffix(match[4], ".git")))
+    {
         IsGit d;
         d.uri = match[1];
         for (auto & param : tokenizeString<Strings>(match[5], "&")) {