diff --git a/pygit2-i586.patch b/pygit2-i586.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..661a302
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pygit2-i586.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From 1d11fa171b56114f181ac022715baba9581d36e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?J=2E=20David=20Ib=C3=A1=C3=B1ez?= <jdavid.ibp@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 17:52:34 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Update git_time decl
+
+Should fix #795
+---
+ pygit2/decl.h | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/pygit2/decl.h b/pygit2/decl.h
+index 9cdea8a0..53451583 100644
+--- a/pygit2/decl.h
++++ b/pygit2/decl.h
+@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ typedef struct {
+ typedef struct git_time {
+ 	git_time_t time;
+ 	int offset;
++	char sign;
+ } git_time;
+ 
+ typedef struct git_signature {
diff --git a/python-pygit2.changes b/python-pygit2.changes
index 188fb77..7a638a8 100644
--- a/python-pygit2.changes
+++ b/python-pygit2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon May 21 08:33:07 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Add patch to fix issues on i586 arch:
+  * pygit2-i586.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu May 17 12:10:25 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-pygit2.spec b/python-pygit2.spec
index fd05f4d..2f916d2 100644
--- a/python-pygit2.spec
+++ b/python-pygit2.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ License:        GPL-2.0-only
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/pygit2/pygit2-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:         pygit2-i586.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module cffi}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ Bindings for libgit2, a linkable C library for the Git version-control system.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n pygit2-%{version}
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fno-strict-aliasing"