diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 2c34db66..938173e9 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 .DS_Store
 .cache
 .eggs
-.git
 .gitignore
 .ipynb_checkpoints
 .travis.yml
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index cd9b642c..7001e799 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ FROM python:3.6-slim-stretch as build
 
 # Setup build dependencies
 RUN apt update \
-&& apt install -y python3-dev build-essential wget libxml2-dev libproj-dev libgeos-dev libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev pkg-config \
+&& apt install -y python3-dev build-essential wget libxml2-dev libproj-dev libgeos-dev libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev pkg-config git \
  && apt clean