diff --git a/dev-python/pygit2/Manifest b/dev-python/pygit2/Manifest
index f0086dc088f77..54b29e8e18fd4 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygit2/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pygit2/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST pygit2-1.20.0.tar.gz 826041 BLAKE2B fee018d70b7d23b93bba3f05251688c38ece343c5f8e76f6505cfee4389b4f4754e9a1c12a2fcb66c8e7aa4463ff681bd3e8bc0d2f268b934c184ac291583451 SHA512 2978d8e4685f1599215cbd6654613945fde28305062aa04bb3042739a7700a6433e009fd0910229ff4e826f005f83dc20786c52911cb3c52ae72d34c516fd28a
+DIST pygit2-1.20.1.tar.gz 888235 BLAKE2B b60fa2e0bf63b23566cb8d0b0a83905991d889ae0f0ff3c4303832165c35cd13b1565929d6940f6a8dcec29b0eec7605b8c544bce44e122a7c9138de9e3f0714 SHA512 e85e29aaa02d8032e89956f6a09550afb2ee96808a42feeda07218e6648adfed2bc2368a281d99367e6d901f82acb812dd641c9880e60d1869baa88164906ed3
diff --git a/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.20.1.ebuild b/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.20.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e9e58c36f7672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/pygit2/pygit2-1.20.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..15} python3_{14..15}t )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python bindings for libgit2"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2/
+	https://pypi.org/project/pygit2/
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2-with-linking-exception"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~riscv ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="
+	<dev-libs/libgit2-1.10:=
+	>=dev-libs/libgit2-1.9.0:=
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/cffi-2.0.0:=[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	${BDEPEND}
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+
+	# unconditionally prevent it from using network
+	sed -i -e '/has_network/s:True:False:' test/utils.py || die
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	rm -r pygit2 || die
+	distutils-r1_src_test
+}