diff --git a/dev-python/lit/lit-9999.ebuild b/dev-python/lit/lit-9999.ebuild
index dc22031efe2a2..2e369db51db9c 100644
--- a/dev-python/lit/lit-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/lit/lit-9999.ebuild
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ inherit distutils-r1 git-r3
 DESCRIPTION="A stand-alone install of the LLVM suite testing tool"
 HOMEPAGE="http://llvm.org/"
 SRC_URI=""
-EGIT_REPO_URI="http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.llvm.org/git/llvm.git
 	https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm.git"
 
 LICENSE="UoI-NCSA"