url = url[url.find('+') + 1:]

        handlers = []

        test_uri, authinfo = Url(url).authinfo()

        if not test_uri.endswith('info/refs'):

            test_uri = test_uri.rstrip('/') + '/info/refs'

        if authinfo:

            #create a password manager

            passmgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

            passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)

            handlers.extend((httpbasicauthhandler(passmgr),

                             httpdigestauthhandler(passmgr)))

        o = urllib2.build_opener(*handlers)

        o.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'git/1.7.8.0')]  # fake some git

        q = {"service": 'git-upload-pack'}

        qs = '?%s' % urllib.urlencode(q)

        cu = "%s%s" % (test_uri, qs)

        req = urllib2.Request(cu, None, {})

        try:

            resp = o.open(req)

            return resp.code == 200

        except Exception, e:

            # means it cannot be cloned

            raise urllib2.URLError("[%s] %s" % (url, e))

    def _get_repo(self, create, src_url=None, update_after_clone=False,

                  bare=False):

        if create and os.path.exists(self.path):

            raise RepositoryError("Location already exist")

        if src_url and not create:

            raise RepositoryError("Create should be set to True if src_url is "

                                  "given (clone operation creates repository)")

        try:

            if create and src_url:

                GitRepository._check_url(src_url)

                self.clone(src_url, update_after_clone, bare)

                return Repo(self.path)

            elif create:

                os.mkdir(self.path)

                if bare:

                    return Repo.init_bare(self.path)

                else:

                    return Repo.init(self.path)

            else:

        except (NotGitRepository, OSError), err:

            raise RepositoryError(err)

    def _get_all_revisions(self):

        # we must check if this repo is not empty, since later command

        # fails if it is. And it's cheaper to ask than throw the subprocess

        # errors

        try:

            self._repo.head()

        except KeyError:

            return []

        cmd = 'rev-list --all --reverse --date-order'

        try:

            so, se = self.run_git_command(cmd)

        except RepositoryError:

            # Can be raised for empty repositories

            return []

        return so.splitlines()

    def _get_all_revisions2(self):

        #alternate implementation using dulwich

        includes = [x[1][0] for x in self._parsed_refs.iteritems()

                    if x[1][1] != 'T']

        return [c.commit.id for c in self._repo.get_walker(include=includes)]

    def _get_revision(self, revision):

        """

        For git backend we always return integer here. This way we ensure

        that changset's revision attribute would become integer.

        """

        pattern = re.compile(r'^[[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|[0-9a-fA-F]{40}]$')

        is_bstr = lambda o: isinstance(o, (str, unicode))

        is_null = lambda o: len(o) == revision.count('0')

        if len(self.revisions) == 0:

            raise EmptyRepositoryError("There are no changesets yet")

        if revision in (None, '', 'tip', 'HEAD', 'head', -1):

            revision = self.revisions[-1]

        if ((is_bstr(revision) and revision.isdigit() and len(revision) < 12)

            or isinstance(revision, int) or is_null(revision)):

            try:

                revision = self.revisions[int(revision)]

            except:

                raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError("Revision %r does not exist "

                    "for this repository %s" % (revision, self))