diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 86d0fde12aab44f7db59ce52e2f383fc5f8626fe..3c22c60b7b11c4aa07d3da29df660236c94ea957 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -48,17 +48,11 @@ ghc-linters:
   image: "registry.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ci-images/linters:$DOCKER_REV"
   script:
     - git fetch origin
-    - git checkout "$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME"
-    - git reset --hard "origin/$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME"
-    - echo "$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_ID"
-    - echo "$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME"
-    - echo "$CI_COMMIT_SHA"
     - base="$(git merge-base $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME $CI_COMMIT_SHA)"
-    - echo $base
+    - echo "Merge base: $base"
     #    - validate-commit-msg .git $(git rev-list $base..$CI_COMMIT_SHA)
     - validate-whitespace .git $(git rev-list $base..$CI_COMMIT_SHA)
     - .gitlab/linters/check-makefiles.py $base $CI_COMMIT_SHA
-    - git checkout "$CI_COMMIT_SHA"
     - .gitlab/linters/check-cpp.py $base $CI_COMMIT_SHA
   dependencies: []
   tags: