diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git/update.sh
index 1f70dcff4294..7aa1e90d53b3 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git/update.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
 oldVersion="$(nix-instantiate --eval -E "with import ./. {}; lib.getVersion git" | tr -d '"')"
-latestTag="$(git ls-remote --tags --sort="v:refname" https://github.com/git/git.git | grep -v '\{\}' | grep -v '\-rc' | tail -1 | sed 's|^.*/v\(.*\)|\1|')"
+latestTag="$(git ls-remote --tags --sort="v:refname" https://github.com/git/git.git | grep -v '{}' | grep -v '\-rc' | tail -1 | sed 's|^.*/v\(.*\)|\1|')"
 targetVersion="${1:-$latestTag}"
 
 if [ ! "${oldVersion}" = "${targetVersion}" ]; then