diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 30479b4..119a45f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 # Define USE_STDEV below if you want git to care about the underlying device
 # change being considered an inode change from the update-cache perspective.
 
-GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0
+GIT_VERSION = 1.0.8
 
 # CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are for the users to override from the command line.