GIT is the revision control system heavily used by the Linux kernel team, and 1.5.4.4 from upstream has been released on 2008/03/09, here's an updated ebuild and a patch for it.
Created attachment 146263 [details] git-1.5.4.4.ebuild
Created attachment 146264 [details, diff] git-1.5.4.4-symlinks.patch
In the tree. You did not need to include the patch or change the ebuild at all. You could have just said to copy it to the new name.