diff --git a/sys-apps/bat/bat-0.25.0-r1.ebuild b/sys-apps/bat/bat-0.25.0-r1.ebuild
index b8e6e4a..e536660 100644
--- a/sys-apps/bat/bat-0.25.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/bat/bat-0.25.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 DEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/libgit2-1.7.0:=[threads]
-	<dev-libs/libgit2-1.9.0
+	<=dev-libs/libgit2-1.8.1:=[threads]
 	dev-libs/oniguruma:=
 	sys-libs/zlib
 "