diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c39e0b9..afc4277 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: checked
 Title: Systematically Run R CMD Checks
-Version: 0.6.2
+Version: 0.6.3
 Authors@R:
     c(
       person(
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c7e26dd..05338a7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-# checked 0.6.1
+# checked 0.6.3
+
+* When fetching remotes dependencies, untar output if git endpoint
+  returns `.tar.gz` file.
+
+# checked 0.6.2
 
 * Ignore package-dep pairs duplicate in the `pkg_dependencies` helper
   when constructing dependencies data.frame. This makes sure `checked`
diff --git a/R/remotes.R b/R/remotes.R
index 23e5c6f..336474b 100644
--- a/R/remotes.R
+++ b/R/remotes.R
@@ -125,9 +125,18 @@ get_remote_tasks.pkg_origin_remote <- function(x) {
 
 get_remote_package_source <- function(remote) {
   path <- file.path(path_remotes(), hash(remote))
-  if (dir.exists(path)) return(path)
+  if (file.exists(file.path(path, "DESCRIPTION"))) return(path)
   dir_create(path)
   tmp <- remotes::remote_download(remote, quiet = TRUE)
+  if (endsWith(tmp, ".tar.gz")) {
+    tmp2 <- tempfile()
+    untar(tmp, exdir = tmp2)
+    tmp <- if (file.exists(file.path(tmp, "DESCRIPTION"))) {
+      tmp2
+    } else {
+      list.dirs(tmp2, full.names = TRUE, recursive = FALSE)
+    }
+  }
   file.copy(
     from = list.files(tmp, full.names = TRUE, recursive = FALSE),
     to = path,