diff --git a/packages/git/build.sh b/packages/git/build.sh
index 94460593c..bfc7fca92 100755
--- a/packages/git/build.sh
+++ b/packages/git/build.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ 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=2.9.3
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.10.0
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=c73364ac00ae85ffc6cfb12ca2700bb0edf30f63262be97be4039be594ff29e7
 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"
diff --git a/packages/git/config.mak.uname.patch b/packages/git/config.mak.uname.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d7545005
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/git/config.mak.uname.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Set uname_S to Linux instead of detecting build machine.
+Android does not support -lrt.
+
+diff -u -r ../git-2.10.0/config.mak.uname ./config.mak.uname
+--- ../git-2.10.0/config.mak.uname	2016-09-02 21:59:09.000000000 -0400
++++ ./config.mak.uname	2016-09-03 17:27:41.964893344 -0400
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ # Platform specific Makefile tweaks based on uname detection
+ 
+-uname_S := $(shell sh -c 'uname -s 2>/dev/null || echo not')
++uname_S := Linux
+ uname_M := $(shell sh -c 'uname -m 2>/dev/null || echo not')
+ uname_O := $(shell sh -c 'uname -o 2>/dev/null || echo not')
+ uname_R := $(shell sh -c 'uname -r 2>/dev/null || echo not')
+@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@
+ 	HAVE_DEV_TTY = YesPlease
+ 	HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME = YesPlease
+ 	HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC = YesPlease
+-	# -lrt is needed for clock_gettime on glibc <= 2.16
+-	NEEDS_LIBRT = YesPlease
+ 	HAVE_GETDELIM = YesPlease
+ 	SANE_TEXT_GREP=-a
+ endif
diff --git a/packages/git/git.patch b/packages/git/git.patch
index daf978253..c9a23b1e8 100644
--- a/packages/git/git.patch
+++ b/packages/git/git.patch
@@ -1,17 +1,5 @@
-* Set uname_S to Linux instead of detecting build machine.
-* Fix ST_CTIME_NSEC and ST_MTIME_NSEC macros on Android.
+Fix ST_CTIME_NSEC and ST_MTIME_NSEC macros on Android.
 
-diff -u -r ../git-1.8.5.3/config.mak.uname ./config.mak.uname
---- ../git-1.8.5.3/config.mak.uname     2014-01-14 18:10:09.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./config.mak.uname  2014-01-22 16:53:42.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- # Platform specific Makefile tweaks based on uname detection
-
--uname_S := $(shell sh -c 'uname -s 2>/dev/null || echo not')
-+uname_S := Linux
- uname_M := $(shell sh -c 'uname -m 2>/dev/null || echo not')
- uname_O := $(shell sh -c 'uname -o 2>/dev/null || echo not')
- uname_R := $(shell sh -c 'uname -r 2>/dev/null || echo not')
 diff -u -r ../git-1.8.5.3/git-compat-util.h ./git-compat-util.h
 --- ../git-1.8.5.3/git-compat-util.h    2014-01-14 18:10:09.000000000 +0100
 +++ ./git-compat-util.h 2014-01-22 13:07:19.000000000 +0100
diff --git a/packages/git/makefile.patch b/packages/git/makefile.patch
index 771348a5a..9790a1519 100644
--- a/packages/git/makefile.patch
+++ b/packages/git/makefile.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-The librt functionality is built into libc on Android.
-
 The Termux git package installs git perl files to $PREFIX/share/git-perl
 by patching perl/Makefile.PL, so setup that path when building perl
 files in this Makefile.
@@ -7,14 +5,6 @@ files in this Makefile.
 diff -u -r ../git-2.7.4/Makefile ./Makefile
 --- ../git-2.7.4/Makefile	2016-03-17 16:47:59.000000000 -0400
 +++ ./Makefile	2016-03-24 22:46:20.335193973 -0400
-@@ -1455,7 +1455,6 @@
- 
- ifdef HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME
- 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME
--	EXTLIBS += -lrt
- endif
- 
- ifdef HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC
 @@ -1789,7 +1788,7 @@
  	sed -e '1{' \
  	    -e '	s|#!.*perl|#!$(PERL_PATH_SQ)|' \