diff --git a/app/helpers/submodule_helper.rb b/app/helpers/submodule_helper.rb
index fb95f2b565ef0ae564a5aeba310a4872fc12142f..a762b320d5616bc5a476bc8c89348e2db1d36084 100644
--- a/app/helpers/submodule_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/submodule_helper.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ module SubmoduleHelper
   def submodule_links(submodule_item, ref = nil, repository = @repository)
     url = repository.submodule_url_for(ref, submodule_item.path)
 
-    return url, nil unless url =~ /([^\/:]+)\/([^\/]+\.git)\Z/
+    return url, nil unless url =~ /([^\/:]+)\/([^\/]+(?:\.git)?)\Z/
 
     namespace = $1
     project = $2
@@ -37,14 +37,16 @@ def gitlab_dot_com_url?(url)
   end
 
   def self_url?(url, namespace, project)
-    return true if url == [Gitlab.config.gitlab.url, '/', namespace, '/',
-                           project, '.git'].join('')
-    url == gitlab_shell.url_to_repo([namespace, '/', project].join(''))
+    url_no_dotgit = url.chomp('.git')
+    return true if url_no_dotgit == [Gitlab.config.gitlab.url, '/', namespace, '/',
+                                     project].join('')
+    url_with_dotgit = url_no_dotgit + '.git'
+    url_with_dotgit == gitlab_shell.url_to_repo([namespace, '/', project].join(''))
   end
 
   def relative_self_url?(url)
     # (./)?(../repo.git) || (./)?(../../project/repo.git) )
-    url =~ /\A((\.\/)?(\.\.\/))(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*\.git\z/ || url =~ /\A((\.\/)?(\.\.\/){2})(?!(\.\.))([^\/]*)\/(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*\.git\z/
+    url =~ /\A((\.\/)?(\.\.\/))(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*(\.git)?\z/ || url =~ /\A((\.\/)?(\.\.\/){2})(?!(\.\.))([^\/]*)\/(?!(\.\.)|(.*\/)).*(\.git)?\z/
   end
 
   def standard_links(host, namespace, project, commit)
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/submodules-no-dotgit.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/submodules-no-dotgit.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ff0ee997fa28ec05de69c6c490d9dd9cfbabc2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/submodules-no-dotgit.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: 'repository browser: handle submodule urls that don''t end with .git'
+merge_request:
+author: David Turner
diff --git a/spec/helpers/submodule_helper_spec.rb b/spec/helpers/submodule_helper_spec.rb
index 28b8def331d63eeebf7417b2c7bbb48e754f294a..345bc33a67b99bf686a0ce835b0c34b64b57b828 100644
--- a/spec/helpers/submodule_helper_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/helpers/submodule_helper_spec.rb
@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@
         expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq(['https://github.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce', 'https://github.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/hash'])
       end
 
-      it 'returns original with non-standard url' do
+      it 'handles urls with no .git on the end' do
         stub_url('http://github.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce')
-        expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq([repo.submodule_url_for, nil])
+        expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq(['https://github.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce', 'https://github.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/hash'])
+      end
 
+      it 'returns original with non-standard url' do
         stub_url('http://github.com/another/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce.git')
         expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq([repo.submodule_url_for, nil])
       end
@@ -95,10 +97,12 @@
         expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq(['https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce', 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/hash'])
       end
 
-      it 'returns original with non-standard url' do
+      it 'handles urls with no .git on the end' do
         stub_url('http://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce')
-        expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq([repo.submodule_url_for, nil])
+        expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq(['https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce', 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/hash'])
+      end
 
+      it 'returns original with non-standard url' do
         stub_url('http://gitlab.com/another/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce.git')
         expect(submodule_links(submodule_item)).to eq([repo.submodule_url_for, nil])
       end