diff --git a/nix/pkgs/artiq.nix b/nix/pkgs/artiq.nix
index 67085fa81..08b5578b3 100644
--- a/nix/pkgs/artiq.nix
+++ b/nix/pkgs/artiq.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchsvn, python3Packages, qt5Full, binutils-or1k, llvm-or1k, llvmlite, python3 }:
+{ stdenv, git, fetchFromGitHub, fetchsvn, python3Packages, qt5Full, binutils-or1k, llvm-or1k, llvmlite, python3 }:
 
 let
 
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ in
 python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
   name = "artiq";
   src = ./../..;
+  buildInputs = [ git ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ binutils-or1k llvm-or1k llvmlite levenshtein pyqtgraph-qt5 aiohttp pygit2 pythonparser numpy dateutil quamash scipy prettytable pyserial asyncserial h5py cython regex qt5Full pyqt5 ];
   doCheck = false;
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {