diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 83587c794cd7a23be7b6a2176f402eb6616ad809..6bfc301f50cb141760642e460eb48fe16a22728d 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ channels:
 dependencies:
   - snakemake==5.23.0
   - mamba==0.5.1
+  # Required on my machine 
+  # to produce the zenodo workflow archive
+  - git==2.28