diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e571d0f2bf..3bbb081a55 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -714,12 +714,8 @@
 # otherwise try to rebuild all targets depending on it whenever we build
 # something else. We thus depend on the meson.build file instead.
 ${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/git-%/meson.build: ${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/git-%.version
-	${Q}${GIT} -c init.defaultBranch=master init ${GIT_QUIET} "${@D}"
-	${Q}${GIT} -C "${@D}" config remote.origin.url ${GIT_REPO_URL}
-	${Q}${GIT} -C "${@D}" config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags
-	${Q}${GIT} -C "${@D}" fetch --depth 1 ${GIT_QUIET} origin ${GIT_VERSION}
-	${Q}${GIT} -C "${@D}" reset --hard
-	${Q}${GIT} -C "${@D}" checkout ${GIT_QUIET} --detach FETCH_HEAD
+	cp -r ${GIT_REPO_PATH} "${@D}"
+	chmod -R oga+rw "${@D}"
 	@ # We're doing a shallow clone without any tags, so Git's default way to figure out the version via git-describe(1)
 	@ # will fail. We thus have to help Git a bit: if we're asked to build from a commit directly we extract the
 	@ # current version of Git from "GIT-VERSION-GEN" and append the first 8 characters of the commit ID to it.