diff --git a/cc-catalog-svc/app/git_http/server.py b/cc-catalog-svc/app/git_http/server.py
index 62a3bb71e8b..2dc8c834d27 100644
--- a/cc-catalog-svc/app/git_http/server.py
+++ b/cc-catalog-svc/app/git_http/server.py
@@ -50,12 +50,22 @@
 # Only ``info/refs`` and the two smart-HTTP service endpoints reach the
 # git CGI. Anything else returns 404 so we don't accidentally expose
 # raw refs / loose objects under unauthenticated HTTP.
+#
+# ``.git`` is optional in the URL path. GitHub/GitLab accept clone URLs
+# with or without the suffix; platform consumers (sobow gitget) often
+# normalize to the bare form before ``git ls-remote``. Bare repos on disk
+# are still ``<slug>.git`` — we rewrite PATH_INFO before http-backend.
 _PATH_RE = re.compile(
-    r"^/(?P<slug>[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,199})\.git"
+    r"^/(?P<slug>[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,199})(?:\.git)?"
     r"(?P<rest>/info/refs|/git-upload-pack|/git-receive-pack|/HEAD)$"
 )
 
 
+def _canonical_path_info(slug: str, rest: str) -> str:
+    """Return PATH_INFO with ``<slug>.git`` for ``git http-backend``."""
+    return f"/{slug}.git{rest}"
+
+
 def is_valid_slug(slug: str) -> bool:
     """Return True if ``slug`` is safe to join onto ``data_dir``."""
     return bool(slug) and bool(_VALID_SLUG_RE.match(slug))
@@ -208,6 +218,11 @@ def app(environ, start_response):
             return _send_not_found(start_response, "not a smart git HTTP path")
 
         slug = match.group("slug")
+        if slug.endswith(".git"):
+            slug = slug[:-4]
+        if not is_valid_slug(slug):
+            return _send_not_found(start_response, "not a smart git HTTP path")
+
         if allowed is not None and slug not in allowed:
             logger.info("git HTTP: 404 for unallowed slug %r", slug)
             return _send_not_found(start_response, "unknown git mirror")
@@ -215,7 +230,10 @@ def app(environ, start_response):
         if not repo_exists(data_dir, slug):
             return _send_not_found(start_response, "git mirror not found on disk")
 
-        cmd_env = _git_http_backend_environ(data_dir, environ)
+        # git http-backend expects PATH_INFO like /{slug}.git/info/refs.
+        backend_environ = dict(environ)
+        backend_environ["PATH_INFO"] = _canonical_path_info(slug, match.group("rest"))
+        cmd_env = _git_http_backend_environ(data_dir, backend_environ)
         body_in = b""
         if environ.get("REQUEST_METHOD") in ("POST", "PUT", "PATCH"):
             body_in = environ["wsgi.input"].read()
diff --git a/cc-catalog-svc/tests/test_git_http.py b/cc-catalog-svc/tests/test_git_http.py
index 62641448924..903e74b6027 100644
--- a/cc-catalog-svc/tests/test_git_http.py
+++ b/cc-catalog-svc/tests/test_git_http.py
@@ -133,6 +133,48 @@ def test_info_refs_via_a2wsgi_mount(tmp_path):
     assert b"refs/heads/" in resp.content
 
 
+def test_info_refs_without_dot_git_suffix(tmp_path):
+    """Platform gitget calls ls-remote with URLs that omit the ``.git`` suffix."""
+    bare = repo_bare_path(str(tmp_path), "demo-cc")
+    _init_bare_repo(bare)
+
+    api = FastAPI()
+    api.mount("/git", WSGIMiddleware(make_git_wsgi_app(str(tmp_path))))
+
+    with TestClient(api) as client:
+        resp = client.get(
+            "/git/demo-cc/info/refs",
+            params={"service": "git-upload-pack"},
+            headers={"Accept": "*/*"},
+        )
+
+    assert resp.status_code == 200
+    assert resp.headers["content-type"].startswith("application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement")
+    assert b"refs/heads/" in resp.content
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(shutil.which("git") is None, reason="git binary required")
+def test_ls_remote_without_dot_git_suffix(tmp_path):
+    bare = repo_bare_path(str(tmp_path), "demo-cc")
+    _init_bare_repo(bare)
+
+    _, port = _mount_test_server(str(tmp_path))
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [
+            "git",
+            "ls-remote",
+            "--heads",
+            "--tags",
+            f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/git/demo-cc",
+        ],
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=30,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    assert "refs/heads/" in result.stdout
+
+
 @pytest.mark.skipif(shutil.which("git") is None, reason="git binary required")
 def test_git_clone_via_a2wsgi_mount(tmp_path):
     bare = repo_bare_path(str(tmp_path), "many-branches")