diff --git a/git-core.spec.in b/git-core.spec.in
index 397be8540cc0123eccb41801209b3f52e34bfd62..8f079dbb59c84c3023b2fad26c8cd38066afd35b 100644
--- a/git-core.spec.in
+++ b/git-core.spec.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ URL: 		http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
 Source: 	http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:	zlib-devel, openssl-devel, curl-devel  %{!?_without_docs:, xmlto, asciidoc > 6.0.3}
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
-Prereq: 	sh-utils, diffutils, rsync, rcs, mktemp >= 1.5
+Requires: 	sh-utils, diffutils, rsync, rcs, mktemp >= 1.5
 
 %description
 This is a stupid (but extremely fast) directory content manager.  It