diff --git a/dev-vcs/git/git-2.15.1.recipe b/dev-vcs/git/git-2.15.1.recipe
index 1d099d21a..bebf40b1f 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/git/git-2.15.1.recipe
+++ b/dev-vcs/git/git-2.15.1.recipe
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ workflows."
 HOMEPAGE="https://git-scm.com/"
 COPYRIGHT="2005-2017 Git Authors (see git web site for list)"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 
 SOURCE_URI="https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-$portVersion.tar.xz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="999c90fd7d45066992cdb87dda35bdff6dfc1d01496118ea718dfb866da4045c"
diff --git a/dev-vcs/git/patches/git-2.15.1.patchset b/dev-vcs/git/patches/git-2.15.1.patchset
index fdadb80b0..f6d1675d8 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/git/patches/git-2.15.1.patchset
+++ b/dev-vcs/git/patches/git-2.15.1.patchset
@@ -129,3 +129,44 @@ index 1cccc3a..076f6fa 100644
 -- 
 2.14.2
 
+
+From 6cc7223d58b1fbb829d462e682ba32b7ebf91404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: sfanxiang <sfanxiang@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 13:26:28 +0000
+Subject: builtin: config: use xdg_config even if it does not exist
+
+
+diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
+index d13daee..2342d34 100644
+--- a/builtin/config.c
++++ b/builtin/config.c
+@@ -508,22 +508,11 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
+ 		char *user_config = expand_user_path("~/.gitconfig", 0);
+ 		char *xdg_config = xdg_config_home("config");
+ 
+-		if (!user_config)
+-			/*
+-			 * It is unknown if HOME/.gitconfig exists, so
+-			 * we do not know if we should write to XDG
+-			 * location; error out even if XDG_CONFIG_HOME
+-			 * is set and points at a sane location.
+-			 */
+-			die("$HOME not set");
+-
+-		if (access_or_warn(user_config, R_OK, 0) &&
+-		    xdg_config && !access_or_warn(xdg_config, R_OK, 0)) {
+-			given_config_source.file = xdg_config;
+-			free(user_config);
+-		} else {
++		if (!xdg_config) {
+ 			given_config_source.file = user_config;
+-			free(xdg_config);
++		} else {
++			given_config_source.file = xdg_config;
++			if (user_config) free(user_config);
+ 		}
+ 	}
+ 	else if (use_system_config)
+-- 
+2.15.1
+