diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/libgit2-update.patch b/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/libgit2-update.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 604636dacd97..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/libgit2-update.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,163 +0,0 @@
-From 3e82a4f5017972c7d28151a468bb71fe7d2279e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: "renovate[bot]" <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:45:12 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] fix(deps): update rust crate git2 to 0.20.0
-
----
- Cargo.lock                          | 8 ++++----
- git-mit-config/Cargo.toml           | 2 +-
- git-mit-install/Cargo.toml          | 2 +-
- git-mit-relates-to/Cargo.toml       | 2 +-
- git-mit/Cargo.toml                  | 2 +-
- mit-commit-message-lints/Cargo.toml | 2 +-
- mit-commit-msg/Cargo.toml           | 2 +-
- mit-hook-test-helper/Cargo.toml     | 2 +-
- mit-pre-commit/Cargo.toml           | 2 +-
- mit-prepare-commit-msg/Cargo.toml   | 2 +-
- 10 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
-index 11c858e8..db9e01dd 100644
---- a/Cargo.lock
-+++ b/Cargo.lock
-@@ -783,9 +783,9 @@ dependencies = [
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "git2"
--version = "0.19.0"
-+version = "0.20.0"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "b903b73e45dc0c6c596f2d37eccece7c1c8bb6e4407b001096387c63d0d93724"
-+checksum = "3fda788993cc341f69012feba8bf45c0ba4f3291fcc08e214b4d5a7332d88aff"
- dependencies = [
-  "bitflags 2.7.0",
-  "libc",
-@@ -1075,9 +1075,9 @@ checksum = "b5aba8db14291edd000dfcc4d620c7ebfb122c613afb886ca8803fa4e128a20a"
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "libgit2-sys"
--version = "0.17.0+1.8.1"
-+version = "0.18.0+1.9.0"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "10472326a8a6477c3c20a64547b0059e4b0d086869eee31e6d7da728a8eb7224"
-+checksum = "e1a117465e7e1597e8febea8bb0c410f1c7fb93b1e1cddf34363f8390367ffec"
- dependencies = [
-  "cc",
-  "libc",
-diff --git a/git-mit-config/Cargo.toml b/git-mit-config/Cargo.toml
-index aa1fd61e..3ec0cd93 100644
---- a/git-mit-config/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/git-mit-config/Cargo.toml
-@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ mit-lint = "3.2.9"
- shell-words = "1.1.0"
- thiserror = "1.0.69"
- miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
-diff --git a/git-mit-install/Cargo.toml b/git-mit-install/Cargo.toml
-index a7611272..96f58672 100644
---- a/git-mit-install/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/git-mit-install/Cargo.toml
-@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
- 
- 
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- 
- indoc = "2.0.5"
-diff --git a/git-mit-relates-to/Cargo.toml b/git-mit-relates-to/Cargo.toml
-index d50d2aa9..c6676bf8 100644
---- a/git-mit-relates-to/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/git-mit-relates-to/Cargo.toml
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ thiserror = "1.0.69"
- miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
- clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- 
- 
-diff --git a/git-mit/Cargo.toml b/git-mit/Cargo.toml
-index ce108e96..fdda0c55 100644
---- a/git-mit/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/git-mit/Cargo.toml
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ thiserror = "1.0.69"
- miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
- clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- 
- 
-diff --git a/mit-commit-message-lints/Cargo.toml b/mit-commit-message-lints/Cargo.toml
-index 623b120b..042d71b6 100644
---- a/mit-commit-message-lints/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/mit-commit-message-lints/Cargo.toml
-@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ time = { version = "0.3.37", features = ["local-offset"] }
- glob = "0.3.2"
- thiserror = "1.0.69"
- miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- regex = "1.11.1"
- serde_yaml = "0.9.34"
-diff --git a/mit-commit-msg/Cargo.toml b/mit-commit-msg/Cargo.toml
-index 3b8c626e..2c5e1a4f 100644
---- a/mit-commit-msg/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/mit-commit-msg/Cargo.toml
-@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.43.0", features = ["full"] }
- mit-lint = "3.2.9"
- clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
- mit-commit = "3.2.1"
-diff --git a/mit-hook-test-helper/Cargo.toml b/mit-hook-test-helper/Cargo.toml
-index 44131375..bccd79ab 100644
---- a/mit-hook-test-helper/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/mit-hook-test-helper/Cargo.toml
-@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ description = "Testing help tools for git-mit"
- 
- [dependencies]
- tempfile = "3.15.0"
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- 
- 
-diff --git a/mit-pre-commit/Cargo.toml b/mit-pre-commit/Cargo.toml
-index 40ff8a0f..4ce23ff7 100644
---- a/mit-pre-commit/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/mit-pre-commit/Cargo.toml
-@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ thiserror = "1.0.69"
- miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
- clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- mit-commit = "3.2.1"
- 
-diff --git a/mit-prepare-commit-msg/Cargo.toml b/mit-prepare-commit-msg/Cargo.toml
-index fcbbcd14..2aa93263 100644
---- a/mit-prepare-commit-msg/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/mit-prepare-commit-msg/Cargo.toml
-@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ miette = { version = "7.4.0", features = [ "fancy" ] }
- shell-words = "1.1.0"
- clap_complete = "4.5.42"
- clap = { version = "4.5.26", features = ["derive", "cargo", "wrap_help", "env", "unicode" ] }
--git2 = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.20.0"
- openssl = { version = "0.10.68", optional = true }
- mit-commit = "3.2.1"
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/package.nix
index d4785244e483..64900d0cf3c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-mit/package.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   lib,
   rustPlatform,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchpatch,
   pkg-config,
   libgit2,
   openssl,
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@
 }:
 
 let
-  version = "5.14.4";
+  version = "6.0.11";
 in
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
   pname = "git-mit";
@@ -19,16 +18,11 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "PurpleBooth";
     repo = "git-mit";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-8XWwzR9TiSCU6fKbrulKpCDFDEyzQpaT2nrahF8iac8=";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-Hnmhvql7oTbNQnBvWlV60bxddH7H7intEsjfXhV4Z2Y=";
   };
 
-  cargoPatches = [
-    # https://github.com/PurpleBooth/git-mit/pull/1543
-    ./libgit2-update.patch
-  ];
-
-  cargoHash = "sha256-B2XRdcwcFxMwnDl5ndIw72OEsn6D2Y8rIoeO4tclJkk=";
+  cargoHash = "sha256-4HNr/m+n+M1BaL67Fo/S4A9EXBYOIp7il0sAtm4rSQc=";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];