diff --git a/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/downgrade-git2.patch b/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/downgrade-git2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c35a90d0ce5..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/cargo/patches/downgrade-git2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
-index 36cf880..72aca65 100644
---- a/Cargo.lock
-+++ b/Cargo.lock
-@@ -1025,11 +1025,11 @@ dependencies = [
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "git2"
--version = "0.18.1"
-+version = "0.17.2"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "fbf97ba92db08df386e10c8ede66a2a0369bd277090afd8710e19e38de9ec0cd"
-+checksum = "7b989d6a7ca95a362cf2cfc5ad688b3a467be1f87e480b8dad07fee8c79b0044"
- dependencies = [
-- "bitflags 2.4.1",
-+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
-  "libc",
-  "libgit2-sys",
-  "log",
-@@ -1040,9 +1040,9 @@ dependencies = [
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "git2-curl"
--version = "0.19.0"
-+version = "0.18.0"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "78e26b61608c573ffd26fc79061a823aa5147449a1afe1f61679a21e2031f7c3"
-+checksum = "f8f8b7432b72928cff76f69e59ed5327f94a52763731e71274960dee72fe5f8c"
- dependencies = [
-  "curl",
-  "git2",
-@@ -2065,9 +2065,9 @@ checksum = "89d92a4743f9a61002fae18374ed11e7973f530cb3a3255fb354818118b2203c"
- 
- [[package]]
- name = "libgit2-sys"
--version = "0.16.1+1.7.1"
-+version = "0.15.2+1.6.4"
- source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
--checksum = "f2a2bb3680b094add03bb3732ec520ece34da31a8cd2d633d1389d0f0fb60d0c"
-+checksum = "a80df2e11fb4a61f4ba2ab42dbe7f74468da143f1a75c74e11dee7c813f694fa"
- dependencies = [
-  "cc",
-  "libc",
-diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
-index c07b004..68c45a0 100644
---- a/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/Cargo.toml
-@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ curl = "0.4.44"
- curl-sys = "0.4.70"
- filetime = "0.2.22"
- flate2 = { version = "1.0.28", default-features = false, features = ["zlib"] }
--git2 = "0.18.1"
--git2-curl = "0.19.0"
-+git2 = "0.17.2"
-+git2-curl = "0.18.0"
- gix = { version = "0.56.0", default-features = false, features = ["blocking-http-transport-curl", "progress-tree", "revision"] }
- gix-features-for-configuration-only = { version = "0.35.0", package = "gix-features", features = [ "parallel" ] }
- glob = "0.3.1"
-@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ itertools = "0.12.0"
- jobserver = "0.1.27"
- lazycell = "1.3.0"
- libc = "0.2.150"
--libgit2-sys = "0.16.1"
-+libgit2-sys = "0.15.2"
- libloading = "0.8.1"
- memchr = "2.6.4"
- miow = "0.6.0"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cargo/template b/srcpkgs/cargo/template
index 4ca4a399560..71c35f0f1cc 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cargo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cargo/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'cargo'
 pkgname=cargo
 version=1.76.0
-revision=1
+revision=2
 _cargo_revision=0.77.0
 build_helper=rust
 hostmakedepends="cargo-bootstrap rust python3 curl pkg-config zlib-devel"