git: save non-normalized shorthand to package.json

Instead of checking if from is just a URL, use npm-package-arg to figure
out what kind of URL or shorthand it might be, and save that to
package.json.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/install.js b/lib/install.js
index 7d3840644..6e94f15b5 100644
--- a/lib/install.js
+++ b/lib/install.js
@@ -423,9 +423,9 @@ function save (where, installed, tree, pretty, hasArguments, cb) {
   var saveTarget = path.resolve(where, "package.json")
 
   asyncMap(Object.keys(tree), function (k, cb) {
-    // if "what" was a url, then save that instead.
+    // if "from" is remote, git, or hosted, then save that instead.
     var t = tree[k]
-      , u = url.parse(t.from)
+      , f = npa(t.from)
       , a = npa(t.what)
       , w = [a.name, a.spec]
 
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ function save (where, installed, tree, pretty, hasArguments, cb) {
     fs.stat(t.from, function (er){
       if (!er) {
         w[1] = "file:" + t.from
-      } else if (u && u.protocol) {
+      } else if (['hosted', 'git', 'remote'].indexOf(f.type) !== -1) {
         w[1] = t.from
       }
       cb(null, [w])