diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
index 079862e..90858c8 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul  8 14:04:53 UTC 2015 - bwiedemann@suse.com
+
+- only require git-core to not pull in git-web and gitk
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 24 08:07:29 UTC 2015 - hib@hiberis.nl
 
diff --git a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
index b538b9f..f7062b3 100644
--- a/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
+++ b/obs-service-tar_scm.spec
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ Group:          Development/Tools/Building
 Url:            https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-%{service}
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  bzr
-BuildRequires:  git
+BuildRequires:  git-core
 BuildRequires:  mercurial
 BuildRequires:  python >= 2.6
 BuildRequires:  python-lxml
 BuildRequires:  subversion
 Requires:       bzr
-Requires:       git
+Requires:       git-core
 Requires:       mercurial
 Requires:       subversion
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build