diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git/default.nix
index dd603e75562..074bcd6c289 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 let
 
-  version = "1.8.3.2";
+  version = "1.8.3.4";
 
   svn = subversionClient.override { perlBindings = true; };
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0mfylhcdrh8prxkbs0gc877rmra2ks48bchg4hhaf2vpw9hpdf63";
+    sha256 = "1nfr4hgqs3b6k9wanqcix0wlw71q61h5irxiavlspd4jvzrcv8nz";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./docbook2texi.patch ./symlinks-in-bin.patch ];