diff --git a/training/a3ultra/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/README.md b/training/a3ultra/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/README.md
index 65cc2717..95c5617c 100644
--- a/training/a3ultra/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/README.md
+++ b/training/a3ultra/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/README.md
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Clone the Megatron-Bridge repository:
 cd ${BASE_DIR}
 git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Megatron-Bridge.git
 cd Megatron-Bridge
-git checkout e40c651db0ef51484db15653feaac4634b7fe7a9
+git fetch origin e40c651db0ef51484db15653feaac4634b7fe7a9
 ```
 
 ### Configure and submit a pretraining job
diff --git a/training/a4/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/8node-fp8-seq8192-gbs2048/README.md b/training/a4/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/8node-fp8-seq8192-gbs2048/README.md
index b32b60b1..9fe43dfc 100644
--- a/training/a4/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/8node-fp8-seq8192-gbs2048/README.md
+++ b/training/a4/llama3-1-70b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/8node-fp8-seq8192-gbs2048/README.md
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Clone the Megatron-Bridge repository:
 cd ${BASE_DIR}
 git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Megatron-Bridge.git
 cd Megatron-Bridge
-git checkout e40c651db0ef51484db15653feaac4634b7fe7a9
+git fetch origin e40c651db0ef51484db15653feaac4634b7fe7a9
 ```
 
 ### Configure and submit a pretraining job
diff --git a/training/a4x/llama3-1-405b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/16node-FP8DS-GBS128/README.md b/training/a4x/llama3-1-405b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/16node-FP8DS-GBS128/README.md
index 235edef1..816265b1 100644
--- a/training/a4x/llama3-1-405b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/16node-FP8DS-GBS128/README.md
+++ b/training/a4x/llama3-1-405b/megatron-bridge-pretraining-slurm/16node-FP8DS-GBS128/README.md
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Clone the Megatron-Bridge repository:
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Megatron-Bridge.git
 cd Megatron-Bridge
-git checkout e40c651db0ef51484db15653feaac4634b7fe7a9
+git fetch origin e40c651db0ef51484db15653feaac4634b7fe7a9
 cd ${BASE_DIR}
 ```