diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
index 790dc78..32e16d9 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -110,9 +110,16 @@ jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: docker
     container:
+      # Vite 8 needs node >= 22.12, so the CI image's bookworm nodejs is too old
+      # for this job and it gets its own image.
       image: node:22-bookworm-slim
 
     steps:
+      # checkout@v4 without git falls back to a REST API tarball download that
+      # Forgejo does not serve, failing with a bare 404.
+      - name: Install git
+        run: apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git
+
       - uses: https://data.forgejo.org/actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install JS dependencies