diff --git a/bench/app.py b/bench/app.py
index d3f01f0d..0f95932e 100755
--- a/bench/app.py
+++ b/bench/app.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def check_url(url, raise_err=True):
 def is_git_url(url):
 	# modified to allow without the tailing .git from https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-git-url.git
 	pattern = r"(?:git|ssh|https?|git@[-\w.]+):(\/\/)?(.*?)(\.git)?(\/?|\#[-\d\w._]+?)$"
-	return bool(re.fullmatch(pattern, url))
+	return bool(re.match(pattern, url))
 
 def get_excluded_apps(bench_path='.'):
 	try: