diff --git a/github-vfs/src/main/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/GitHubFileProvider.java b/github-vfs/src/main/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/GitHubFileProvider.java
index 64989f19..4b143340 100644
--- a/github-vfs/src/main/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/GitHubFileProvider.java
+++ b/github-vfs/src/main/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/GitHubFileProvider.java
@@ -65,7 +65,18 @@ private Optional<UserAuthenticationData> getAuthenticationData(FileSystemOptions
 		return Optional.ofNullable(userAuthenticationData);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Convert the relative project url into a valid commons-vfs url (with the GitHub prefix)
+	 * @param project user/project identifier. If absolute path is given as parameter, it is replaced.
+	 * @return
+	 */
 	public static String urlFor(String project) {
+		if(project.contains(".git")) {
+			project = project.replace(".git", "");
+		}
+		if(project.startsWith("https://github.com")) {
+			return project.replace("https://", "github://");
+		}
 		return String.format("github://github.com/%s", project);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/github-vfs/src/test/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/TestFor345_Fail_When_Using_Repository_Path.java b/github-vfs/src/test/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/TestFor345_Fail_When_Using_Repository_Path.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2cee5473
--- /dev/null
+++ b/github-vfs/src/test/java/org/ndx/aadarchi/vfs/github/TestFor345_Fail_When_Using_Repository_Path.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package org.ndx.aadarchi.vfs.github;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileObject;
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException;
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemOptions;
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.VFS;
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.auth.StaticUserAuthenticator;
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileSystemConfigBuilder;
+import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class TestFor345_Fail_When_Using_Repository_Path {
+	private static FileSystemOptions authenticationOptions;
+
+	@BeforeAll public static void putGitHubCredentialsInAuth() {
+		String token = System.getProperty("aadarchi.github.token");
+		StaticUserAuthenticator auth = new StaticUserAuthenticator("github.com", 
+				null, token);
+		authenticationOptions = new FileSystemOptions();
+		DefaultFileSystemConfigBuilder.getInstance().setUserAuthenticator(authenticationOptions, auth);
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	void can_have_file_object_when_repo_path_is_given() throws FileSystemException {
+		FileObject rootFile = VFS.getManager().resolveFile(GitHubFileProvider.urlFor("https://github.com/Riduidel/aadarchi.git"), authenticationOptions);
+		Assertions.assertThat((Object) rootFile).isNotNull();
+	}
+}