If you haven't already considered it, you might want to add -n to avoid the checkout (since the .git is the real value of that operation) and depending on your

If you haven't already considered it, you might want to add -n to avoid the checkout (since the .git is the real value of that operation) and depending on your objective you might also want -r to pull down submodules in order to get the whole story about what's "in the repo"