Tags not fetched in GitHub actions when following documentation

I have the following in my github actions which is copied from the documentation in the readme (with config added).

    - name: Fetch all history for all tags and branches
      run: git fetch --prune --unshallow

    - name: Install GitVersion
      uses: gittools/actions/gitversion/setup@v0.9.4
      with:
          versionSpec: '5.2.x'
    
    - name: Use GitVersion
      id: gitversion # step id used as reference for output values
      uses: gittools/actions/gitversion/execute@v0.9.4
      with:
        useConfigFile: true
        configFilePath: ./GitVersion.yml

Running the fetch step gives the following in the logs.

Run git fetch --prune --unshallow
  git fetch --prune --unshallow
  shell: /bin/bash -e {0}
  env:
    projectName: ModelBuilder

This isn’t downloading the tags as expected and therefore generating an incorrect version.

I have updated the step to explicitly include tags.

    - name: Fetch all history for all tags and branches
      run: git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags

The build now fetches the following tags and generates the correct version.

Run git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags
  git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags
  shell: /bin/bash -e {0}
  env:
    projectName: ModelBuilder
From https://github.com/roryprimrose/ModelBuilder
 * [new branch]      master         -> origin/master
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0049 -> 4.0.0-beta0049
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0050 -> 4.0.0-beta0050
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0051 -> 4.0.0-beta0051
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0052 -> 4.0.0-beta0052
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0053 -> 4.0.0-beta0053
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0054 -> 4.0.0-beta0054
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0057 -> 4.0.0-beta0057
 * [new tag]         4.0.0-beta0059 -> 4.0.0-beta0059
 * [new tag]         6.0.0          -> 6.0.0
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0001 -> 6.0.0-beta0001
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0002 -> 6.0.0-beta0002
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0003 -> 6.0.0-beta0003
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0004 -> 6.0.0-beta0004
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0005 -> 6.0.0-beta0005
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0006 -> 6.0.0-beta0006
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0007 -> 6.0.0-beta0007
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0008 -> 6.0.0-beta0008
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0009 -> 6.0.0-beta0009
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0010 -> 6.0.0-beta0010
 * [new tag]         6.0.0-beta0011 -> 6.0.0-beta0011
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The documentation on unshallow isn’t clear about what it does with tags but it does not seem to fetch them.

[roryprimrose]

Thanks for the update. Yep, the tags came down on a build. I’ll reopen if I find it isn’t working again.

[w5l]

That fixed the issue for me. Thanks.

note: am not the original reporter.