diff --git a/hgext/schemes.py b/hgext/schemes.py
--- a/hgext/schemes.py
+++ b/hgext/schemes.py
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ class ShortRepository(object):
         return '<ShortRepository: %s>' % self.scheme
 
     def instance(self, ui, url, create):
+        url = self.resolve(url)
+        return hg._peerlookup(url).instance(ui, url, create)
+
+    def resolve(self, url):
         # Should this use the util.url class, or is manual parsing better?
         try:
             url = url.split('://', 1)[1]
@@ -77,8 +81,7 @@ class ShortRepository(object):
         else:
             tail = ''
         context = dict((str(i + 1), v) for i, v in enumerate(parts))
-        url = ''.join(self.templater.process(self.url, context)) + tail
-        return hg._peerlookup(url).instance(ui, url, create)
+        return ''.join(self.templater.process(self.url, context)) + tail
 
 def hasdriveletter(orig, path):
     if path: