diff --git a/meta-ml/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.15.2.bbappend b/meta-ml/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.15.2.bbappend
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..b81a562d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-ml/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_3.15.2.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SRC_URI_remove = "git://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git "
+SRC_URI_append =  "git://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git;protocol=https;nobranch=1"