diff --git a/playbooks/roles/install-ansible-roles/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/install-ansible-roles/tasks/main.yaml
index 72add6a979..fec28a6921 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/install-ansible-roles/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/install-ansible-roles/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     repo: '{{ ansible_role_src_root }}/src/opendev.org/opendev/ansible-role-{{ ansible_role }}'
     dest: '/etc/ansible/roles/{{ ansible_role }}'
     force: yes
+    recursive: false
   loop: '{{ ansible_roles }}'
   loop_control:
     loop_var: ansible_role
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/install-certcheck/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/install-certcheck/tasks/main.yaml
index bfea1457bb..f017cc1c54 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/install-certcheck/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/install-certcheck/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   git:
     repo: 'https://github.com/Matty9191/ssl-cert-check'
     dest: /opt/ssl-cert-check
+    recursive: false
 
 - name: Install cron job
   cron:
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/letsencrypt-acme-sh-install/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/letsencrypt-acme-sh-install/tasks/main.yaml
index 7ea6aaa175..820d37adeb 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/letsencrypt-acme-sh-install/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/letsencrypt-acme-sh-install/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
         dest: /opt/acme.sh
         # Pinned due to https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4416
         version: 3.0.5
+        recursive: false
       register: clone_acmesh_result
       until: clone_acmesh_result is not failed
       retries: 3
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/master-nameserver/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/master-nameserver/tasks/main.yaml
index b565dc0f6e..bfa456bfbb 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/master-nameserver/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/master-nameserver/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     refspec: "{{ item.refspec | default(omit) }}"
     version: "{{ item.version | default(omit) }}"
     dest: "/opt/source/{{ item.name }}"
+    recursive: false
   loop: "{{ dns_repos }}"
 - name: Set base rsync options
   set_fact:
diff --git a/playbooks/sync-gitea-projects.yaml b/playbooks/sync-gitea-projects.yaml
index bf2e00c703..793faf5685 100644
--- a/playbooks/sync-gitea-projects.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/sync-gitea-projects.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
         repo: https://opendev.org/openstack/project-config
         dest: /opt/project-config
         force: yes
+        recursive: false
 
 - hosts: "gitea:!disabled"
   name: "Create repos on gitea servers"