diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index d3e6e2c..b1f3b48 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "src/rocksdb"]
 	path = src/rocksdb
-	url = https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
+	url = https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb
diff --git a/src/rocksdb b/src/rocksdb
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..27e593f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rocksdb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 27e593fbe10efa5a562ca79b1939ffb69d25163f