diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/yaml-cpp/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/yaml-cpp/package.py
index e600d470a95f5a793286d876787d0843a6494b7a..cc22b3420d3396c4500a3f45d79685ec9d88e3a0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/yaml-cpp/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/yaml-cpp/package.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ class YamlCpp(CMakePackage):
     url      = "https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/archive/yaml-cpp-0.5.3.tar.gz"
 
     version('0.5.3', '4e47733d98266e46a1a73ae0a72954eb')
+    version('develop', git='https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp', branch='master')
 
     variant('shared', default=True,
             description='Enable build of shared libraries')