diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libstemmer/libstemmer_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libstemmer/libstemmer_git.bb
index b169afc..7f0706e 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libstemmer/libstemmer_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/libstemmer/libstemmer_git.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 DEPENDS:class-target = "${BPN}-native"
 
 SRC_URI = "\
-    git://github.com/snowballstem/snowball.git \
+    git://github.com/snowballstem/snowball.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
     file://0001-Build-so-lib.patch \
 "
 SRCREV = "4764395431c8f2a0b4fe18b816ab1fc966a45837"