diff --git a/gitea/client.go b/gitea/client.go
index db7ba63..cf81cc0 100644
--- a/gitea/client.go
+++ b/gitea/client.go
@@ -28,17 +28,17 @@ func Version() string {
 
 // Client represents a Gitea API client.
 type Client struct {
-	url           string
-	accessToken   string
-	username      string
-	password      string
-	otp           string
-	sudo          string
-	debug         bool
-	client        *http.Client
-	ctx           context.Context
-	serverVersion *version.Version
-	versionLock   sync.RWMutex
+	url            string
+	accessToken    string
+	username       string
+	password       string
+	otp            string
+	sudo           string
+	debug          bool
+	client         *http.Client
+	ctx            context.Context
+	serverVersion  *version.Version
+	getVersionOnce sync.Once
 }
 
 // Response represents the gitea response
diff --git a/gitea/version.go b/gitea/version.go
index 765a40c..b5922ec 100644
--- a/gitea/version.go
+++ b/gitea/version.go
@@ -22,14 +22,8 @@ func (c *Client) ServerVersion() (string, *Response, error) {
 // CheckServerVersionConstraint validates that the login's server satisfies a
 // given version constraint such as ">= 1.11.0+dev"
 func (c *Client) CheckServerVersionConstraint(constraint string) error {
-	c.versionLock.RLock()
-	if c.serverVersion == nil {
-		c.versionLock.RUnlock()
-		if err := c.loadClientServerVersion(); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	} else {
-		c.versionLock.RUnlock()
+	if err := c.loadServerVersion(); err != nil {
+		return err
 	}
 
 	check, err := version.NewConstraint(constraint)
@@ -51,14 +45,8 @@ var (
 
 // checkServerVersionGreaterThanOrEqual is internally used to speed up things and ignore issues with prerelease
 func (c *Client) checkServerVersionGreaterThanOrEqual(v *version.Version) error {
-	c.versionLock.RLock()
-	if c.serverVersion == nil {
-		c.versionLock.RUnlock()
-		if err := c.loadClientServerVersion(); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	} else {
-		c.versionLock.RUnlock()
+	if err := c.loadServerVersion(); err != nil {
+		return err
 	}
 
 	if !c.serverVersion.GreaterThanOrEqual(v) {
@@ -67,17 +55,17 @@ func (c *Client) checkServerVersionGreaterThanOrEqual(v *version.Version) error
 	return nil
 }
 
-// loadClientServerVersion init the serverVersion variable
-func (c *Client) loadClientServerVersion() error {
-	c.versionLock.Lock()
-	defer c.versionLock.Unlock()
-
-	raw, _, err := c.ServerVersion()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if c.serverVersion, err = version.NewVersion(raw); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return nil
+// loadServerVersion init the serverVersion variable
+func (c *Client) loadServerVersion() (err error) {
+	c.getVersionOnce.Do(func() {
+		raw, _, err2 := c.ServerVersion()
+		if err2 != nil {
+			err = err2
+			return
+		}
+		if c.serverVersion, err = version.NewVersion(raw); err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+	})
+	return
 }