diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
index e8c6864..cc31323 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 SRCREV = "877613493ff44807888ce1928129574be393cbb0"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jessek/hashdeep.git \
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jessek/hashdeep.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
            file://wrong-variable-expansion.patch \
            file://0001-Fix-literal-and-identifier-spacing-as-dictated-by-C-.patch \
            "