diff --git a/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Dockerfile b/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Dockerfile
index 1365856..7aa544c 100644
--- a/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Dockerfile
+++ b/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Dockerfile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     openssh-server \
     curl \
-    git-core \
     xvfb \
     python-dev \
     python-pip \
@@ -26,8 +25,20 @@
     zip \
     vim \
     gettext-base \
+    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
+    libexpat1-dev \
+    gettext \
+    libz-dev \
+    libssl-dev \
+    build-essential \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+ADD https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-$GIT_VER.tar.gz /tmp/
+RUN tar xvfz /tmp/git-$GIT_VER.tar.gz && \
+    cd git-$GIT_VER && \
+    make prefix=/usr all install && \
+    cd .. && rm -Rf git-$GIT_VER
+
 ADD http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/$MAVEN_VER/binaries/apache-maven-$MAVEN_VER-bin.tar.gz /usr/local
 
 RUN cd /usr/local && \
diff --git a/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Makefile b/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Makefile
index 9408f97..c00fa5d 100644
--- a/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Makefile
+++ b/jenkins-docker/slave-debian/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 NO_CACHE ?= false
 IMAGE=gerritforge/gerrit-ci-slave-debian
 MAVEN_VER=3.6.1
+GIT_VER=2.24.0
 
 build: build_stretch
 
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
 build_stretch:  id_rsa.pub
 	@echo "Building Docker for Debian:$(DEBIAN_VER)"
 	@echo "========================================"
-	cat Dockerfile | DEBIAN_VER=$(DEBIAN_VER) MAVEN_VER=$(MAVEN_VER) envsubst > Dockerfile-$(DEBIAN_VER)
+	cat Dockerfile | DEBIAN_VER=$(DEBIAN_VER) MAVEN_VER=$(MAVEN_VER) GIT_VER=$(GIT_VER) envsubst > Dockerfile-$(DEBIAN_VER)
 	docker build --no-cache=$(NO_CACHE) -f Dockerfile-$(DEBIAN_VER) -t ${IMAGE}:$(DEBIAN_VER) .
 
 publish_stretch: