diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-docker.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-docker.yml
index 849ef01ebda2da89fe23b4a8bba6b0bc666c90f4..aae2d504713980fdec99fcc20fcc56ac5fc99a8d 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-docker.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-docker.yml
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ stages:
       # use a merged auth config for the destination image
       echo "${docker_release_config_json}" > "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/release-only.json"
       maybe_install_python3
-      merge_json "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/src-config.json" "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/release-only.json" > "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/dest-config.json"
+      merge_json "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/release-only.json" "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/src-config.json" > "$BUILDTOOL_HOME/skopeo/.docker/dest-config.json"
     fi
 
     if [ "$docker_snapshot_registry_host" = "$docker_release_registry_host" ]