diff --git a/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/resources/bot_update.py b/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/resources/bot_update.py
index c59725e35..3172340e8 100755
--- a/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/resources/bot_update.py
+++ b/recipes/recipe_modules/bot_update/resources/bot_update.py
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ def create_manifest(gclient_output, patch_root, gerrit_ref):
     the directory -> repo:revision mapping.
   * Gerrit Patch info which contains info about patched revisions.
 
-  We normalize the URLs such that if they are googlesource.com urls, they:
+  We normalize the URLs using the normalize_git_url function.
   """
   manifest = {
       'version': 0,  # Currently the only valid version is 0.
@@ -467,21 +467,16 @@ def create_manifest(gclient_output, patch_root, gerrit_ref):
     patch_root = patch_root.strip('/')  # Normalize directory names.
   for directory, info in gclient_output.get('solutions', {}).iteritems():
     directory = directory.strip('/')  # Normalize the directory name.
-    # There are two places to the the revision from, we do it in this order:
-    # 1. In the "revision" field
-    # 2. At the end of the URL, after @
-    repo = ''
-    revision = info.get('revision', '')
     # The format of the url is "https://repo.url/blah.git@abcdefabcdef" or
     # just "https://repo.url/blah.git"
-    url_split = info.get('url')
-    if url_split is not None:
-      url_split = url_split.split('@')
-    if not revision and len(url_split) == 2:
-      revision = url_split[1]
-    if url_split:
-      repo = normalize_git_url(url_split[0])
-    if repo:
+    url = info.get('url') or ''
+    repo, _, url_revision = url.partition('@')
+    repo = normalize_git_url(repo)
+    # There are two places to get the revision from, we do it in this order:
+    # 1. In the "revision" field
+    # 2. At the end of the URL, after @
+    revision = info.get('revision') or url_revision
+    if repo and revision:
       dirs[directory] = {
         'git_checkout': {
           'repo_url': repo,
diff --git a/tests/bot_update_coverage_test.py b/tests/bot_update_coverage_test.py
index f623e6daa..232e0061d 100755
--- a/tests/bot_update_coverage_test.py
+++ b/tests/bot_update_coverage_test.py
@@ -258,23 +258,27 @@ class BotUpdateUnittests(unittest.TestCase):
 
   def testGenerateManifestsBasic(self):
     gclient_output = {
-			'solutions': {
-				'breakpad/': {
-					'revision': None,
-					'scm': None,
-					'url': ('https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad.git' +
-                  '@5f638d532312685548d5033618c8a36f73302d0a')
-				},
-				"src/": {
-					'revision': 'f671d3baeb64d9dba628ad582e867cf1aebc0207',
-					'scm': None,
-					'url': 'https://chromium.googlesource.com/a/chromium/src.git'
-				},
-      }
+        'solutions': {
+            'breakpad/': {
+                'revision': None,
+                'scm': None,
+                'url': ('https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad.git' +
+                        '@5f638d532312685548d5033618c8a36f73302d0a')
+            },
+            "src/": {
+                'revision': 'f671d3baeb64d9dba628ad582e867cf1aebc0207',
+                'scm': None,
+                'url': 'https://chromium.googlesource.com/a/chromium/src.git'
+            },
+            'src/overriden': {
+                'revision': None,
+                'scm': 'git',
+                'url': None,
+            },
+        }
     }
     out = bot_update.create_manifest(gclient_output, None, None)
     self.assertEquals(len(out['directories']), 2)
-    print out
     self.assertEquals(
         out['directories']['src']['git_checkout']['revision'],
         'f671d3baeb64d9dba628ad582e867cf1aebc0207')
@@ -286,7 +290,8 @@ class BotUpdateUnittests(unittest.TestCase):
         '5f638d532312685548d5033618c8a36f73302d0a')
     self.assertEquals(
         out['directories']['breakpad']['git_checkout']['repo_url'],
-        'https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad')
+        'https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad')
+    self.assertNotIn('src/overridden', out['directories'])
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':