diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
index 55e1482..80a88c2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-perl=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native/perl \
 
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "NO_PYTHON=1"
 
-inherit autotools perlnative
+inherit autotools perlnative python-dir
 
 do_compile_prepend () {
 	# Remove perl/perl.mak to fix the out-of-date perl.mak error
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ FILES_${PN}-perltools += " \
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-perltools = "${PN} perl perl-module-file-path findutils"
 
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-python"
-FILES_${PN}-python = "${libdir}/python*"
+FILES_${PN}-python = "${libdir}/python* ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
 
 
 # git-tk package with gitk and git-gui
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_1.7.7.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_1.7.7.bb
index 9d24911..6b6e04b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_1.7.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_1.7.7.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require git.inc
 
-PR = "r2"
+PR = "r3"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-${PV}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5d645884e688921e773186783b65ce33"