diff --git a/completion-wordbreaks.diff b/completion-wordbreaks.diff
index 65d2312..34230dc 100644
--- a/completion-wordbreaks.diff
+++ b/completion-wordbreaks.diff
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 
 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
 +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
-@@ -77,10 +77,12 @@
- 	autoload -U +X bashcompinit && bashcompinit
- fi
- 
+@@ -23,10 +23,12 @@
+ #    3) Consider changing your PS1 to also show the current branch,
+ #       see git-prompt.sh for details.
+
 -case "$COMP_WORDBREAKS" in
 -*:*) : great ;;
 -*)   COMP_WORDBREAKS="$COMP_WORDBREAKS:"
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
 +#*:*) : great ;;
 +#*)   COMP_WORDBREAKS="$COMP_WORDBREAKS:"
 +#esac
- 
+
  # __gitdir accepts 0 or 1 arguments (i.e., location)
  # returns location of .git repo
diff --git a/git-1.8.0.2.tar.gz b/git-1.8.0.2.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c07201..0000000
--- a/git-1.8.0.2.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:c06d5d29389e90583d16ec41d5be931593196f6842f9b14e910a0b5781c10e07
-size 4231410
diff --git a/git-1.8.1.tar.gz b/git-1.8.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20ac311
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-1.8.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:285cc1a9c8751ea62fa568e2462f286fa535e0d847f06ae686c8180e53360c2e
+size 4298533
diff --git a/git.changes b/git.changes
index b90669b..1dc12f2 100644
--- a/git.changes
+++ b/git.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan  1 15:18:58 UTC 2013 - douglarek@outlook.com
+
+- updated to version 1.8.1:
+
+    * a bit of features.
+    * other minor fixes and documentation updates since v1.8.0.
+    
+    more details, please see here:
+    https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Dec 14 00:46:08 UTC 2012 - douglarek@outlook.com
 
diff --git a/git.spec b/git.spec
index e89e26d..5634516 100644
--- a/git.spec
+++ b/git.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package git
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2013 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ BuildRequires:  perl-Error
 BuildRequires:  python
 BuildRequires:  sgml-skel
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
-Version:        1.8.0.2
+Version:        1.8.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
 License:        GPL-2.0