diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index d385952153..3e59530234 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ sys-apps/gptfdisk -icu
 dev-libs/apr-util -gdbm
 sys-libs/gdbm berkdb
 
-dev-vcs/git -perl -iconv
+dev-vcs/git -pcre-jit -perl -iconv
 
 net-analyzer/nmap ncat -lua