diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 562ee2d1b9ed7e720283d8551b9fa0de699551ef..0c6bb805b9882b5942d20428bcb3eb26b75557f1 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -352,4 +352,4 @@ gem 'vmstat', '~> 2.3.0'
 gem 'sys-filesystem', '~> 1.1.6'
 
 # Gitaly GRPC client
-gem 'gitaly', '~> 0.3.0'
+gem 'gitaly', '~> 0.5.0'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 8382de2b7a059de14e87ad2f284ee3eb2f84815d..304fc9f2bb399a5a5f301f7f430fccbeea51aa1e 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ GEM
       json
     get_process_mem (0.2.0)
     gherkin-ruby (0.3.2)
-    gitaly (0.3.0)
+    gitaly (0.5.0)
       google-protobuf (~> 3.1)
       grpc (~> 1.0)
     github-linguist (4.7.6)
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   fuubar (~> 2.0.0)
   gemnasium-gitlab-service (~> 0.2)
   gemojione (~> 3.0)
-  gitaly (~> 0.3.0)
+  gitaly (~> 0.5.0)
   github-linguist (~> 4.7.0)
   gitlab-flowdock-git-hook (~> 1.0.1)
   gitlab-markup (~> 1.5.1)
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/workhorse.rb b/lib/gitlab/workhorse.rb
index 6fe85af3c30d5143d489f534d6e45e065f118db4..d1131ad65e00a206bbebb8abfe3197fe04157a91 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/workhorse.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/workhorse.rb
@@ -17,14 +17,22 @@ module Gitlab
 
     class << self
       def git_http_ok(repository, user)
+        repo_path = repository.path_to_repo
         params = {
           GL_ID: Gitlab::GlId.gl_id(user),
-          RepoPath: repository.path_to_repo,
+          RepoPath: repo_path,
         }
 
         if Gitlab.config.gitaly.enabled
-          address = Gitlab::GitalyClient.get_address(repository.project.repository_storage)
+          storage = repository.project.repository_storage
+          address = Gitlab::GitalyClient.get_address(storage)
           params[:GitalySocketPath] = URI(address).path
+          # TODO: use GitalyClient code to assemble the Repository message
+          params[:Repository] = Gitaly::Repository.new(
+            path: repo_path,
+            storage_name: storage,
+            relative_path: Gitlab::RepoPath.strip_storage_path(repo_path),
+          ).to_h
         end
 
         params
diff --git a/spec/lib/gitlab/workhorse_spec.rb b/spec/lib/gitlab/workhorse_spec.rb
index 535c96eeee9aa12ac8a2d2b82f28cb1c7223bc9f..cb7c810124e128fe74ec23217202956ad91f7b50 100644
--- a/spec/lib/gitlab/workhorse_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/gitlab/workhorse_spec.rb
@@ -179,10 +179,11 @@ describe Gitlab::Workhorse, lib: true do
 
   describe '.git_http_ok' do
     let(:user) { create(:user) }
+    let(:repo_path) { repository.path_to_repo }
 
     subject { described_class.git_http_ok(repository, user) }
 
-    it { expect(subject).to eq({ GL_ID: "user-#{user.id}", RepoPath: repository.path_to_repo }) }
+    it { expect(subject).to eq({ GL_ID: "user-#{user.id}", RepoPath: repo_path }) }
 
     context 'when Gitaly is enabled' do
       before do
@@ -192,6 +193,11 @@ describe Gitlab::Workhorse, lib: true do
       it 'includes Gitaly params in the returned value' do
         gitaly_socket_path = URI(Gitlab::GitalyClient.get_address('default')).path
         expect(subject).to include({ GitalySocketPath: gitaly_socket_path })
+        expect(subject[:Repository]).to include({
+          path: repo_path,
+          storage_name: 'default',
+          relative_path: project.full_path + '.git',
+        })
       end
     end
   end