nitrous-io/goop — pull request #26 by vadim87 (2014-09-19 01:12:07+00:00)
Title: Detect VCS based on an URL.

Used when fetching dependencies from custom URLs.

Previously only package name was used for this, e.g. packages with names
code.google.com/... are always fetched using Mercurial (if original repository
on code.google.com is Mercurial), even though custom URL may point to a Git
mirror.

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Note that I decided not to use IdentifyVCS for this, since I dislike the idea of sending git or hg requests into the unknown. If GuessVCS fails to detect repository flavor, a default decision made by vcs.RepoRootForImportPathStatic is used as before.

(Also I find it curious that IdentifyVCS is defined and has a test, but not actually used).