diff --git a/manifest_xml.py b/manifest_xml.py
index edbebaa3..7e533a02 100644
--- a/manifest_xml.py
+++ b/manifest_xml.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def normalize_url(url: str) -> str:
     parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
 
     # This matches patterns like "git@github.com:foo/bar".
-    scp_like_url_re = r"^[^:]+@[^:]+:[^/]+/"
+    scp_like_url_re = r"^[^/:]+@[^/:]+:[^/]+/"
 
     # If our URL is missing a schema and matches git's
     # SCP-like syntax we should convert it to a proper
diff --git a/tests/test_manifest_xml.py b/tests/test_manifest_xml.py
index 11c0c15e..6423bb96 100644
--- a/tests/test_manifest_xml.py
+++ b/tests/test_manifest_xml.py
@@ -1139,6 +1139,17 @@ class NormalizeUrlTests(ManifestParseTestCase):
             "http://foo.com/bar/baz", manifest_xml.normalize_url(url)
         )
 
+    def test_has_leading_slash(self):
+        """SCP-like syntax except a / comes before the : which git disallows."""
+        url = "/git@foo.com:bar/baf"
+        self.assertEqual(url, manifest_xml.normalize_url(url))
+
+        url = "gi/t@foo.com:bar/baf"
+        self.assertEqual(url, manifest_xml.normalize_url(url))
+
+        url = "git@fo/o.com:bar/baf"
+        self.assertEqual(url, manifest_xml.normalize_url(url))
+
     def test_has_no_scheme(self):
         """Deal with cases where we have no scheme, but we also
         aren't dealing with the git SCP-like syntax