diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgit2/template b/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
index 52d155fe4c5..5daefde49ef 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ makedepends="zlib-devel libressl-devel"
 short_desc="The Git linkable library"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://libgit2.github.com/"
+update_site="https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/tags"
+update_pattern='archive/v?\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz)'
 license="GPL-2 with Linking Exception"
 
 do_fetch() {