diff --git a/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim b/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
index 5d9d45d..6d140d9 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 " Maintainer:  Debian Vim Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 " Former Maintainers: Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@ist.org>
 "                     Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
-" Last Change: 2014 May 01
+" Last Change: 2014 Oct 08
 " URL: http://anonscm.debian.org/hg/pkg-vim/vim/raw-file/unstable/runtime/syntax/debcontrol.vim
 
 " Standard syntax initialization
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 syn match debcontrolHTTPUrl contained "\vhttps?://[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?(\.[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?)*\.[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alpha:]]?(:\d+)?(/[^[:space:]]*)?$"
 syn match debcontrolVcsSvn contained "\vsvn%(\+ssh)?://[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?(\.[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?)*\.[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alpha:]]?(:\d+)?(/[^[:space:]]*)?$"
 syn match debcontrolVcsCvs contained "\v%(\-d *)?:pserver:[^@]+\@[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?(\.[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?)*\.[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alpha:]]?:/[^[:space:]]*%( [^[:space:]]+)?$"
-syn match debcontrolVcsGit contained "\v%(git|http)://[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?(\.[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?)*\.[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alpha:]]?(:\d+)?(/[^[:space:]]*)?%(\s+-b\s+[^ ~^:?*[\\]+)?$"
+syn match debcontrolVcsGit contained "\v%(git|https?)://[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?(\.[[:alnum:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alnum:]]?)*\.[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:]]*[[:alpha:]]?(:\d+)?(/[^[:space:]]*)?%(\s+-b\s+[^ ~^:?*[\\]+)?$"
 
 " An email address
 syn match	debcontrolEmail	"[_=[:alnum:]\.+-]\+@[[:alnum:]\./\-]\+"