diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0d69f48bebd0c79dfcf38c2228d61e11e65629e0..7014cb83ae9044e411f9249054c406ed86175a2d 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "bpl-subset"]
 	path = bpl-subset
-	url = ../bpl-subset.git
+	url = git://github.com/inducer/bpl-subset
 [submodule "pyopencl/compyte"]
 	path = pyopencl/compyte
-	url = ../compyte.git
+	url = git://github.com/inducer/compyte