'yocto-kernel-tools' requires git version much greater than general Yocto requirement

Hello!
I was investigating some problems with the `devtool modify linux`
command and have discovered that part of the problems is generated
from the commit
https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-kernel-tools/commit/?id=923a9de418b3ca8592c3fd0a0d0b1e4b29533891
This commit is very simple and just adds the `--no-verify` flag to the
`git am` command. The problem is that this flag was added pretty
recently  (Jan 5 2023 -
https://github.com/git/git/commit/566902f2db3bdad9be7fb083c713f0d21acf111e)
and my host git doesn't have it.
Is it normal that yocto relies on such modern git? Because the yocto
documentation just says `Git 1.8.3.1 or greater`
(https://docs.yoctoproject.org/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.html#compatible-linux-distribution).
And `git am --no-verify` works from something like `v2.31.6`
apparently.

Best regards,
Konstantin Aladyshev