diff --git a/srcpkgs/git/template b/srcpkgs/git/template
index 0d93d91380b..fe1e7958d1a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/git/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/git/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'git'
 pkgname=git
-version=2.44.0
+version=2.45.0
 revision=1
 hostmakedepends="asciidoc gettext perl pkg-config tk xmlto"
 makedepends="libglib-devel libcurl-devel libsecret-devel pcre2-devel tk-devel"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ license="GPL-2.0-only"
 homepage="https://git-scm.com/"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/${version}.txt"
 distfiles="https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=e358738dcb5b5ea340ce900a0015c03ae86e804e7ff64e47aa4631ddee681de3
+checksum=0aac200bd06476e7df1ff026eb123c6827bc10fe69d2823b4bf2ebebe5953429
 replaces="git-perl>=0"
 python_version=3
 
@@ -41,14 +41,13 @@ do_configure() {
 	# this flag will skip shipping unneeded symlinks
 	# those symlinks were kept for scripts written before 2010
 	SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = Yes
+	GIT_TEST_UTF8_LOCALE=C.UTF-8
 	EOF
 
 	if [ "$XBPS_TARGET_LIBC" = musl ]; then
 		cat <<-EOF >>config.mak
 		ICONV_OMITS_BOM = Yes
 		NO_REGEX = Yes
-		# TZ=CST6CDT date --iso-8601=seconds -d"2005-01-31 18:00:00 -0600"
-		export GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t9604.2
 		EOF
 	fi
 }
@@ -64,12 +63,13 @@ do_build() {
 
 do_check() {
 	make test ${makejobs}
+	GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256 make test ${makejobs}
+	# svn and cvs, fail intermittent with reftable
+	GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t9[16]??' \
+		make test ${makejobs}
 	make -C contrib/diff-highlight test
 	make -C contrib/subtree test
 	make -C contrib/credential/netrc test
-	cd t
-	# 2.44.0
-	# GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable ./t0610-reftable-basics.sh
 }
 
 do_install() {