diff --git a/src/freedombone-image-vmdebootstrap b/src/freedombone-image-vmdebootstrap
index bb0f3220..76f29b49 100755
--- a/src/freedombone-image-vmdebootstrap
+++ b/src/freedombone-image-vmdebootstrap
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export TEXTDOMAIN=${PROJECT_NAME}-image-vmdebootstrap
 export TEXTDOMAINDIR="/usr/share/locale"
 
 VMDEBOOTSTRAP_REPO="https://github.com/bashrc/vmdebootstrap"
-VMDEBOOTSTRAP_COMMIT='bashrc/freedombone'
+VMDEBOOTSTRAP_BRANCH='bashrc/freedombone'
 
 mkdir -p vendor
 if [ -d vendor/vmdebootstrap ] ; then
@@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ EOF
 fi
 
 cd vendor/vmdebootstrap
-git checkout $VMDEBOOTSTRAP_COMMIT -b $VMDEBOOTSTRAP_COMMIT
+git checkout $VMDEBOOTSTRAP_BRANCH