diff --git a/.github/workflows/upstream pretest.yaml b/.github/workflows/upstream pretest.yaml
index f71cf6c3..5ba7c217 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/upstream pretest.yaml	
+++ b/.github/workflows/upstream pretest.yaml	
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ jobs:
                         if (-not $?) {
                             Write-Host "----- Simple merge failed, trying to fix submodule conflict"
                             
-                            git add "DataScraping/Reps/$subm_name"
+                            git reset "DataScraping/Reps/$subm_name"
                             if (-not $?) { throw "git add failed" }
                             
                             git merge --continue