diff --git a/packages/git/build.sh b/packages/git/build.sh
index 29fa595d3..25af9d081 100755
--- a/packages/git/build.sh
+++ b/packages/git/build.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://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_DEPENDS="libcurl, less, openssl"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.14.1
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6f724c6d0e9e13114ab35db6f67e1b2c1934b641e89366e6a0e37618231f2cc6
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz