diff --git a/dev-vcs/git/git-1.7.7.2.bep b/dev-vcs/git/git-1.7.7.2.bep
index 3d9992ab9..c6392f1f9 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/git/git-1.7.7.2.bep
+++ b/dev-vcs/git/git-1.7.7.2.bep
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ CHECKSUM_MD5="400d85fd17bdb7f8923dbf3b3a2ca671"
 REVISION="1"
 STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
 DEPEND="net-misc/curl >= 7.20.0
-		dev-lang/perl >= 5.10.1"
+		dev-lang/perl >= 5.10.1
+		dev-vcs/gitdoc == 1.7.7.2"
 BUILD {
 	cd git-1.7.7.2
 	make strip
diff --git a/dev-vcs/gitdoc/gitdoc-1.7.7.2.bep b/dev-vcs/gitdoc/gitdoc-1.7.7.2.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db5766895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-vcs/gitdoc/gitdoc-1.7.7.2.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+DESCRIPTION="git a fast version control system"
+HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/git-core/"
+SRC_URI="http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-manpages-1.7.7.2.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="24e2d2b6c3f97102f7b79e05c165fd22"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+
+BUILD {
+	echo "Building Git documentation"
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	DOC_DIR=$(finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY)'/man'
+	echo $DOC_DIR
+	cp -r man* $DOC_DIR
+}
+
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+COPYRIGHT="2005-2011 Git Authors (see git web site for list)"