diff --git a/packages/git/build.sh b/packages/git/build.sh
index ebc72062f..8a0faf882 100755
--- a/packages/git/build.sh
+++ b/packages/git/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://git-scm.com/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="openssl, libcurl"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.5.1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.5.3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 ## This requires a /system/bin/sh on the host building:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--without-tcltk --with-curl --with-shell=/system/bin/sh ac_cv_header_libintl_h=no ac_cv_fread_reads_directories=yes ac_cv_snprintf_returns_bogus=yes"
diff --git a/packages/git/makefile.patch b/packages/git/makefile.patch
index d8e91dba0..4f601ac1f 100644
--- a/packages/git/makefile.patch
+++ b/packages/git/makefile.patch
@@ -9,12 +9,3 @@ diff -u -r ../git-2.5.0/Makefile ./Makefile
  endif
  
  ifdef HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC
-@@ -1699,7 +1698,7 @@
- common-cmds.h: generate-cmdlist.perl command-list.txt
- 
- common-cmds.h: $(wildcard Documentation/git-*.txt)
--	$(QUIET_GEN)$(PERL_PATH) generate-cmdlist.perl command-list.txt > $@+ && mv $@+ $@
-+	$(QUIET_GEN)perl generate-cmdlist.perl command-list.txt > $@+ && mv $@+ $@
- 
- SCRIPT_DEFINES = $(SHELL_PATH_SQ):$(DIFF_SQ):$(GIT_VERSION):\
- 	$(localedir_SQ):$(NO_CURL):$(USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME):$(SANE_TOOL_PATH_SQ):\