diff --git a/.github/workflows/check.yml b/.github/workflows/check.yml
index 2846fd37..0f99ea00 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check.yml
@@ -48,18 +48,16 @@ jobs:
         submodules: true
     - name: Build malcontent dependency
       run: |
-        git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent.git ./malcontent
+        git clone --branch 0.4.0 --depth 1 --no-tags https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent.git ./malcontent
         pushd ./malcontent
-        git checkout tags/0.4.0
         meson setup --prefix=/usr _build
         ninja -C _build
         sudo ninja -C _build install
         popd
     - name: Build ostree dependency
       run: |
-        git clone https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
+        git clone --branch v2020.8 --depth 1 --no-tags https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
         pushd ./ostree
-        git checkout 7bc53f006351fcf5d32d9427e61a4f842f57f67b
         ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
         make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
         sudo make install
@@ -113,9 +111,8 @@ jobs:
         libgirepository1.0-dev libappstream-glib-dev libdconf-dev clang e2fslibs-dev
     - name: Build ostree dependency
       run: |
-        git clone https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
+        git clone --branch v2020.8 --depth 1 --no-tags https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
         pushd ./ostree
-        git checkout 7bc53f006351fcf5d32d9427e61a4f842f57f67b
         ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
         make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
         sudo make install
@@ -151,9 +148,8 @@ jobs:
         submodules: true
     - name: Build ostree dependency
       run: |
-        git clone https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
+        git clone --branch v2020.8 --depth 1 --no-tags https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
         pushd ./ostree
-        git checkout 7bc53f006351fcf5d32d9427e61a4f842f57f67b
         ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
         make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
         sudo make install
@@ -186,9 +182,8 @@ jobs:
         submodules: true
     - name: Build ostree dependency
       run: |
-        git clone https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
+        git clone --branch v2020.8 --depth 1 --no-tags https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git ./ostree
         pushd ./ostree
-        git checkout 7bc53f006351fcf5d32d9427e61a4f842f57f67b
         ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
         make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
         sudo make install