diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-lfs/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-lfs/default.nix
index d9b5e1704976..261ae3317f2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-lfs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-lfs/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,32 @@
-{ stdenv, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ stdenv, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch }:
 
-buildGoPackage rec {
+buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "git-lfs";
-  version = "2.7.2";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs";
+  version = "2.8.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     rev = "v${version}";
     owner = "git-lfs";
     repo = "git-lfs";
-    sha256 = "1nf40rbdz901vsahg5cm09pznpina6wimmxl0lmh8pn0mi51yzvc";
+    sha256 = "17x9q4g1acf51bxr9lfmd2ym7w740n4ghdi0ncmma77kwabw9d3x";
   };
 
-  preBuild = ''
-    pushd go/src/github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs
-    go generate ./commands
-    popd
-  '';
+  modSha256 = "1rjscc52rh8kxa64canw3baljllp1c639nsn89hs5b86c8v1jav7";
 
-  postInstall = ''
-    rm -v $bin/bin/{man,script,cmd}
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      # Build fails on v2.8.0 with go 1.13 due to invalid dependency version:
+      #   go: github.com/git-lfs/go-ntlm@v0.0.0-20190307203151-c5056e7fa066: invalid pseudo-version: does not match version-control timestamp (2019-04-01T17:57:52Z)
+      # TODO: Remove once https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/commit/cd83f4224ce02398bdbf8b05830d92220d9b8e01 lands in a release.
+      url = "https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/commit/cd83f4224ce02398bdbf8b05830d92220d9b8e01.patch";
+      sha256 = "17nmnlkknglqhzrky5caskbscrjp7kp9b5mfqznh1jx2hbxzlpbj";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  subPackages = [ "." ];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    go generate ./commands
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {