diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.23.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.23.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3cf429ab1d73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.23.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, cmake, zlib, python, libssh2, openssl, http-parser, libiconv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
+  version = "0.23.2";
+  name = "libgit2-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    name = "${name}.tar.gz";
+    url = "https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/tarball/v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1d3901bmgvdnmzrx21afi1d0llsqmca3ckj942p0i2wpdpr1kbcp";
+  };
+
+  cmakeFlags = "-DTHREADSAFE=ON";
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake python pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ zlib libssh2 openssl http-parser ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "the Git linkable library";
+    homepage = http://libgit2.github.com/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; all;
+  };
+} // stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs (!stdenv.isLinux) {
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-liconv";
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libiconv ];
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9c546d7b6b8e..da3a256b2a9f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7031,6 +7031,7 @@ in
   );
 
   libgit2_0_21 = callPackage ../development/libraries/git2/0.21.nix { };
+  libgit2_0_23 = callPackage ../development/libraries/git2/0.23.nix { };
 
   gle = callPackage ../development/libraries/gle { };