diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index feee5b6583c0c3a9a6007d725b10451c35fe8c0d..5411680f6b89c35b7bd8f50ebe2b87a361d9014e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ checks:
     # GitLab... so this is a workaround for extracting the hash
     - export CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA=$(git ls-remote origin $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME | cut -d$'\t' -f1)
     - export FILES=$(git diff $CI_COMMIT_SHA  $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA --name-only | tr '\n' ' ')
-    - echo "Running pre-commit on diff from  $CI_COMMIT_SHA to $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA ($CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME)"
     - python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt
+    - echo "Running pre-commit on diff from  $CI_COMMIT_SHA to $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_SHA ($CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME)"
     #  Pass list of modified files to pre-commit so that it only checks them
     - echo $FILES | xargs pre-commit run --color=always --files