diff --git a/alarm/qtxmlpatterns-git/PKGBUILD b/alarm/qtxmlpatterns-git/PKGBUILD
index f908ffa54..7c9ce98f0 100644
--- a/alarm/qtxmlpatterns-git/PKGBUILD
+++ b/alarm/qtxmlpatterns-git/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ license=('GPL3' 'LGPL')
 
 depends=('qtbase-git')
 optdepends=()
-makedepends=()
+makedepends=('git')
 provides=('qtxmlpatterns')
 replaces=()
 conflicts=()