diff --git a/gclient_utils.py b/gclient_utils.py
index 80eb816b1..e77137f3e 100644
--- a/gclient_utils.py
+++ b/gclient_utils.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def SplitUrlRevision(url):
   """Splits url and returns a two-tuple: url, rev"""
   if url.startswith('ssh:'):
     # Make sure ssh://user-name@example.com/~/test.git@stable works
-    regex = r'(ssh://(?:[-\w]+@)?[-\w:\.]+/[-~\w\./]+)(?:@(.+))?'
+    regex = r'(ssh://(?:[-.\w]+@)?[-\w:\.]+/[-~\w\./]+)(?:@(.+))?'
     components = re.search(regex, url).groups()
   else:
     components = url.split('@', 1)