diff --git a/general/prog/git.xml b/general/prog/git.xml
index fb032d9e42..40ff9fae8b 100644
--- a/general/prog/git.xml
+++ b/general/prog/git.xml
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 
   <!ENTITY git-download-http "&git-root;/git-&git-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY git-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY git-md5sum        "dfefd2363f2d4f9cefd6e609e0c605fe">
+  <!ENTITY git-md5sum        "7d67a6c1ca1876aa8dd08951d0592a73">
 
-  <!ENTITY git-size          "6.7 MB">
+  <!ENTITY git-size          "6.8 MB">
   <!-- but people keep forgetting that an install not only needs the net build
        space, it also needs the install space (or DESTDIR) -->
-  <!ENTITY git-buildsize     "231 MB (with downloaded documentation, add 17 MB to build documentation)">
+  <!ENTITY git-buildsize     "245 MB (with downloaded documentation, add 17 MB to build documentation)">
   <!-- With 2.23.0, there was a large increase in time for tests. Possibly disk related? -->
   <!-- Confirmed that it is disk related.-->
   <!ENTITY git-time          "0.3 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 0.4 SBU for building documentation and 6 SBU (disk speed dependent) for tests, both with parallelism=4)">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 17d86bbc32..29ae82994b 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
     -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>October 5th, 2022</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to git-2.38.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17147">#17147</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>October 4th, 2022</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 545c02eaa7..51deead2f4 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY gcc-version                  "12.2.0">
 <!ENTITY gc-version                   "8.2.2">
 <!ENTITY gdb-version                  "12.1">
-<!ENTITY git-version                  "2.37.3">
+<!ENTITY git-version                  "2.38.0">
 <!ENTITY guile-version                "3.0.8">
 <!ENTITY librep-version               "0.92.7">
 <!ENTITY llvm-maj-version             "15">