diff --git a/habitat/plan.ps1 b/habitat/plan.ps1
index f6a65f37..6306b14e 100644
--- a/habitat/plan.ps1
+++ b/habitat/plan.ps1
@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ $pkg_maintainer="The Chef Maintainers <humans@chef.io>"
 
 $pkg_deps=@(
   "core/ruby3_4-plus-devkit"
-  "core/git"
   "core/libarchive"
   "core/zlib"
 )
+$pkg_build_deps=@(
+  "core/git"
+)
 $pkg_bin_dirs=@("bin"
                 "vendor/bin")
 $project_root= (Resolve-Path "$PLAN_CONTEXT/../").Path
diff --git a/habitat/plan.sh b/habitat/plan.sh
index 808b4e89..11445a80 100644
--- a/habitat/plan.sh
+++ b/habitat/plan.sh
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ export HAB_REFRESH_CHANNEL="base-2025"
 pkg_name=chef-cli
 pkg_origin=chef
 ruby_pkg="core/ruby3_4"
-pkg_deps=(${ruby_pkg} core/coreutils core/libarchive core/git)
+pkg_deps=(${ruby_pkg} core/coreutils core/libarchive)
 pkg_build_deps=(
     core/make
     core/sed
     core/gcc
+     core/git
     )
 pkg_bin_dirs=(bin)