diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c642429c..2d1c38e5 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 [submodule "llama.cpp-mainline"]
 	path = gpt4all-backend/llama.cpp-mainline
 	url = https://github.com/nomic-ai/llama.cpp.git
+	branch = gguf