diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index aea7d6960..d9c49f7c2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ don't, however, allow me to make a suggestion: feature branches pulled from
 upstream. Try this:
 
 1. Fork wlroots
-2. `git clone git@gitlab.freedesktop.org:<username>/wlroots.git && cd wlroots`
+2. `git clone git@ssh.gitlab.freedesktop.org:<username>/wlroots.git && cd wlroots`
 3. `git remote add upstream https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots.git`
 
 You only need to do this once. You're never going to use your fork's master