From 80d7ab57ed215f443a03f770ea9f86fbc1fa9372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: davidverholen <david.verholen@brandung.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:46:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add check for remote Repository in GitDriver::supports

---
 src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/GitDriver.php | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/GitDriver.php b/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/GitDriver.php
index da87e2e7d..b8aa31298 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/GitDriver.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/GitDriver.php
@@ -241,7 +241,11 @@ class GitDriver extends VcsDriver
             return false;
         }
 
-        // TODO try to connect to the server
+        $process = new ProcessExecutor($io);
+        if($process->execute('git ls-remote ' . $url, $output) === 0) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
         return false;
     }
 }