diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/epeg/epeg_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/epeg/epeg_git.bb
index 8ca5740..bdffe4b 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/epeg/epeg_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/epeg/epeg_git.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
                     file://COPYING-PLAIN;md5=f59cacc08235a546b0c34a5422133035"
 DEPENDS = "jpeg libexif"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/mattes/epeg.git"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/mattes/epeg.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
 SRCREV = "9a175cd67eaa61fe45413d8da82da72936567047"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"