diff --git a/scripts/prepare-shared-repos b/scripts/prepare-shared-repos
index e02cb15..64a9bca 100755
--- a/scripts/prepare-shared-repos
+++ b/scripts/prepare-shared-repos
@@ -38,9 +38,10 @@ with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="shared-repo-temp-", dir="/home/pokybuil
         # shallow clones disabled as it doesn't work correctly with revision numbers in the result repo leading to release build failures.
         if True or args.publish_dir:
             utils.fetchgitrepo(tempdir, repo, repos[repo], stashdir)
-            utils.publishrepo(tempdir, repo, args.publish_dir)
         else:
             utils.fetchgitrepo(tempdir, repo, repos[repo], stashdir, depth=1)
+        if args.publish_dir:
+            utils.publishrepo(tempdir, repo, args.publish_dir)
 
     utils.printheader("Creating shared src tarball")
     subprocess.check_call("tar -I zstd -cf " + args.sharedsrcdir.rstrip("/") + ".tar.zst ./*", shell=True, cwd=tempdir)