diff --git a/packages/git/build.sh b/packages/git/build.sh
index 50e3c343b..3c32899d6 100755
--- a/packages/git/build.sh
+++ b/packages/git/build.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ 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"
 # less is required as a pager for git log, and the busybox less does not handle used escape sequences.
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libcurl, less"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.7.4
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.8.1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 ## This requires a working $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/sh on the host building:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--without-tcltk --with-curl --with-shell=$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/sh ac_cv_header_libintl_h=no ac_cv_fread_reads_directories=yes ac_cv_snprintf_returns_bogus=yes"