diff --git a/roles/mirror-workspace-git-repos/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/mirror-workspace-git-repos/tasks/main.yaml
index 9c7a171c2..dc01fd9a8 100644
--- a/roles/mirror-workspace-git-repos/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/mirror-workspace-git-repos/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -17,37 +17,6 @@
   tags:
     - skip_ansible_lint
 
-- name: Show git status of src repos in workspace
-  # Show the full git status output for each repo to debug failures
-  # when determining HEAD in the next task.
-  shell: "echo '{{ item.key }}:'; git status"
-  args:
-    chdir: "{{ zuul.executor.work_root }}/{{ item.value.src_dir }}"
-  with_dict: "{{ zuul.projects }}"
-  delegate_to: localhost
-  # ANSIBLE0006: Skip linting since it triggers on the "git" command,
-  # but status is not supported by ansible git module.
-  tags:
-    - skip_ansible_lint
-
-- name: Determine local HEAD of projects
-  # Output yaml-valid dict data for projects and their current HEAD
-  shell: "echo '{{ item.key }}:' $(git status | head -1 |awk '{ print $NF }')"
-  args:
-    chdir: "{{ zuul.executor.work_root }}/{{ item.value.src_dir }}"
-  with_dict: "{{ zuul.projects }}"
-  delegate_to: localhost
-  register: project_heads_yaml
-  # ANSIBLE0006: Skip linting since it triggers on the "git" command,
-  # but status is not supported by ansible git module.
-  tags:
-    - skip_ansible_lint
-
-- name: Build dict to map project and current head HEAD
-  set_fact:
-    project_heads: "{{ project_heads|default({}) | combine( item.stdout | from_yaml ) }}"
-  with_items: '{{ project_heads_yaml.results }}'
-
 # Do this as a multi-line shell so that we can do the loop once
 - name: Update remote repository state correctly
   shell: |
@@ -56,7 +25,7 @@
     # Undo the config setting we did above
     git config --local --unset receive.denyCurrentBranch
     # checkout the branch matching the branch set up by the executor
-    git checkout {{ project_heads[item.key] }}
+    git checkout {{ item.value.checkout }}
   args:
     chdir: "{{ ansible_user_dir }}/{{ item.value.src_dir }}"
   with_dict: "{{ zuul.projects }}"