diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b05ca039..8536d9ef 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 - When restoring GitHub-hosted packages, packrat will now look for both
   `Github*` and `Remote*` fields to determine where to install from. (#740)
 
+- When restoring packages from CRAN-like repositories, names are no 
+  longer used to detect if these are actually git-like. This prevents
+  issues if you name a CRAN-like repository something like "GitHub". (#747)
+
 # packrat 0.9.3
 
 - Update vendored `renv` with support for additional Linux distributions when
diff --git a/R/restore.R b/R/restore.R
index e4b27ab1..5be4caab 100644
--- a/R/restore.R
+++ b/R/restore.R
@@ -25,12 +25,17 @@ isFromCranlikeRepo <- function(pkgRecord, repos) {
     return(TRUE)
   }
 
-  # for records that do declare a source, ensure it's not 'source', 'github', 'bitbucket', or 'gitlab'.
+  # check if there's a remote host and repo for github, bitbucket, or gitlab
+  if (!is.null(pkgRecord$remote_host) && !is.null(pkgRecord$remote_repo)) {
+    return(FALSE)
+  }
+
+  # for records that do declare a source, ensure it's not 'source'.
   # in previous releases of packrat, we attempted to match the repository name
   # with one of the existing repositories; however, this caused issues in
   # certain environments (the names declared repositories in the lockfile, and
   # the the names of the active repositories in the R session, may not match)
-  !tolower(source) %in% c("source", "github", "bitbucket", "gitlab")
+  !tolower(source) %in% c("source")
 }
 
 # Given a package record and a database of packages, check to see if
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-restore.R b/tests/testthat/test-restore.R
index d8c49dd3..656c8ebb 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-restore.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-restore.R
@@ -150,3 +150,92 @@ test_that("appendRemoteInfoToDescription uses RemoteSubdir", {
   desc <- readLines(file.path(dest_dir, "toast", "DESCRIPTION"))
   expect_true("RemoteSubdir: toast" %in% desc)
 })
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns TRUE for CRAN source", {
+  pkgRecord <- list(
+    name = "ggplot2",
+    source = "CRAN",
+    version = "3.4.0"
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(CRAN = "https://cran.r-project.org")
+
+  expect_true(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns TRUE for CustomCRANLikeRepository class", {
+  pkgRecord <- structure(
+    list(
+      name = "ggplot2",
+      source = "CRAN",
+      version = "3.4.0"
+    ),
+    class = c("packageRecord", "CustomCRANLikeRepository")
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(CRAN = "https://cran.r-project.org")
+
+  expect_true(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns FALSE for source package", {
+  pkgRecord <- list(
+    name = "mypackage",
+    source = "source",
+    version = "1.0.0"
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(CRAN = "https://cran.r-project.org")
+
+  expect_false(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns FALSE if remote_repo/remote_host are present", {
+  pkgRecord <- list(
+    name = "mypackage",
+    source = "GitHub",
+    version = "1.0.0",
+    remote_host = "github.com",
+    remote_repo = "mypackage"
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(GitHub = "https://github.com/me/mypackage")
+
+  expect_false(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns TRUE for BioConductor source", {
+  pkgRecord <- list(
+    name = "GenomicRanges",
+    source = "Bioconductor",
+    version = "1.50.0"
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(BioCsoft = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.16/bioc")
+
+  expect_true(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns TRUE for custom repository source", {
+  pkgRecord <- list(
+    name = "mypackage",
+    source = "MyRepo",
+    version = "1.0.0"
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(MyRepo = "https://example.com/repo")
+
+  expect_true(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})
+
+test_that("isFromCranlikeRepo returns TRUE for a CRAN-like source named Github", {
+  pkgRecord <- list(
+    name = "mypackage",
+    source = "GitHub",
+    version = "1.0.0"
+  )
+
+  repos <- c(GitHub = "https://example.com/repo")
+
+  expect_true(isFromCranlikeRepo(pkgRecord, repos))
+})