robertkowalski/github-url-from-username-repo — pull request #5 by calvinmetcalf (2014-05-10 19:09:41+00:00)
Title: default to git+https for url format

a lot of corporate firewalls block the port that the git protocol uses, [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/257r3v/til_you_should_not_set_git_urls_as_dependencies/) reminded me of it, though I used to face this all the time myself when I worked in government