diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/publish.yml b/.gitea/workflows/publish.yml
index 89b4d3a..4ab4c52 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -15,10 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       # 1. Checkout the website repository (your app code)
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       - name: Checkout website repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4                    # avoids manual clone
-        with:
-          repository: lepton/website                 # full owner/repo path
-          fetch-depth: 1
+        run: git clone https://code.akshaykolli.com/lepton/website
 
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       # 2. Start an SSH agent and load the private key from secrets