diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c76436c1f..d235af859 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ before_install:
 install:
   - docker build --build-arg BUILD_COMMIT=$TRAVIS_COMMIT -t humanconnection/nitro-web .
   - docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
-  - git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/Human-Connection/Nitro-Backend.git ../Nitro-Backend
-  - git --work-tree=../Nitro-Backend checkout $TRAVIS_BRANCH || echo "Branch \`$TRAVIS_BRANCH\` does not exist, falling back to \`master\`"
+  - git clone https://github.com/Human-Connection/Nitro-Backend.git ../Nitro-Backend
+  - git -C "../Nitro-Backend" checkout $TRAVIS_BRANCH || echo "Branch \`$TRAVIS_BRANCH\` does not exist, falling back to \`master\`"
   - docker-compose -f ../Nitro-Backend/docker-compose.yml up -d
   - yarn global add cypress wait-on
   - yarn add cypress-cucumber-preprocessor