diff --git a/nano.spec b/nano.spec
index 2c80ca8..1908b9a 100644
--- a/nano.spec
+++ b/nano.spec
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Patch2:          0002-use-futimens-if-available-instead-of-utime.patch
 
 BuildRequires:   file-devel
 BuildRequires:   gettext-devel
+BuildRequires:   git
 BuildRequires:   groff
 BuildRequires:   ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:   sed
@@ -26,9 +27,7 @@ Requires(preun): /sbin/install-info
 GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
-%patch1 -p1
-%patch2 -p1
+%autosetup -S git
 
 # do not run autotools, we have already reflected the configure.ac
 # changes in configure and config.h.in
@@ -90,6 +89,7 @@ exit 0
 
 %changelog
 * Thu Aug 11 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1
+- use %%autosetup in %%prep
 - build out of source tree
 - do not recode man pages, they are UTF-8 encoded since v2.3.6
 - new upstream release