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diff --git a/‎apps/rush-lib/src/utilities/VersionControl.ts‎
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diff --git a/‎common/changes/@microsoft/rush/octogonz-rush-allow-dot-git_2019-03-17-19-46.json‎
Lines changed: 11 additions & 0 deletions b/‎common/changes/@microsoft/rush/octogonz-rush-allow-dot-git_2019-03-17-19-46.json‎
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@@ -82,7 +82,15 @@ export class VersionControl {
           const remoteUrl: string = child_process.execSync(`git remote get-url ${remoteName}`)
             .toString()
             .trim();
-          return remoteUrl === repositoryUrl;
+          if (remoteUrl === repositoryUrl) {
+            return true;
+          }
+          // When you copy a URL from the GitHub web site, they append the ".git" file extension to the URL.
+          // So we allow that to be specified in rush.json, even though the file extension gets dropped
+          // by "git clone".
+          if (remoteUrl + '.git' === repositoryUrl) {
+            return true;
+          }
         }
         return false;
       });
 
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "comment": "Improve \"rush change\" to ignore the \".git\" file extension when appended to the \"repository.url\" setting in rush.json",
+      "packageName": "@microsoft/rush",
+      "type": "none"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/rush",
+  "email": "4673363+octogonz@users.noreply.github.com"
+}