diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst
index ce576b4..be6ba29 100644
--- a/docs/usage.rst
+++ b/docs/usage.rst
@@ -641,6 +641,19 @@ strip_release
 
 Note that either pkg or srcpkg needs to be specified (but not both) or the item name will be used as pkg.
 
+Check Git repository
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+::
+
+  source = "git"
+
+This enables you to check tags of an arbitrary git repository, also useful for scenarios like a github project having too many tags.
+
+url
+  URL of the Git repository.
+
+This source returns tags and supports :ref:`list options`.
+
 Manually updating
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 ::
diff --git a/nvchecker_source/git.py b/nvchecker_source/git.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f70104
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nvchecker_source/git.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# MIT licensed
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>, et al.
+
+from .cmd import run_cmd # type: ignore
+
+async def get_version(
+  name, conf, *, cache, keymanager=None
+):
+  git = conf['git']
+  cmd = f"git ls-remote -t --refs {git}"
+  data = await cache.get(cmd, run_cmd)
+  versions = [line.split("refs/tags/")[1] for line in data.splitlines()]
+  return versions
diff --git a/tests/test_git.py b/tests/test_git.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..03a9c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_git.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# MIT licensed
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>, et al.
+
+import pytest
+pytestmark = [pytest.mark.asyncio, pytest.mark.needs_net]
+
+async def test_git(get_version):
+    assert await get_version("example", {
+        "source": "git",
+        "git": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-test.git",
+    }) == "v1.1.1"