diff --git a/_service b/_service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f144b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_service
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<services>
+  <service name="tar_scm" mode="disabled">
+    <param name="scm">git</param>
+    <param name="url">https://github.com/openSUSE/hpc.git</param>
+    <param name="package-meta">no</param>
+    <param name="exclude">.git</param>
+    <param name="filename">suse-hpc</param>
+    <param name="versionformat">0.1.%h</param>
+    <param name="revision">960d92268df13a0806254c325e3e72e135268c77</param>
+	<param name="extract">general/dlinfo.c</param>
+	<param name="extract">general/macros.hpc</param>
+	<param name="extract">general/hpc_elf.pl</param>
+	<param name="extract">general/hpc_elf.attr</param>
+	<param name="extract">general/hpc_elflib.attr</param>
+  </service>
+  <service name="recompress" mode="disabled">
+    <param name="file">suse-hpc*.tar</param>
+    <param name="compression">gz</param>
+  </service>
+</services>
diff --git a/suse-hpc.changes b/suse-hpc.changes
index 6102fc0..d5c3605 100644
--- a/suse-hpc.changes
+++ b/suse-hpc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Oct  6 08:09:44 UTC 2017 - nmoreychaisemartin@suse.com
+
+- Add _service to fetch github files
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct  5 12:31:55 UTC 2017 - eich@suse.com
+
+- Make source files downloadable from git.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct  4 08:15:18 UTC 2017 - eich@suse.com
 
diff --git a/suse-hpc.spec b/suse-hpc.spec
index 60e29eb..a318c38 100644
--- a/suse-hpc.spec
+++ b/suse-hpc.spec
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #
 
 
+%define git_ver .960d922
 Summary:        SUSE HPC Environment
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
 Group:          Productivity/Clustering/Computing