diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmake-multi-platform.yml b/.github/workflows/cmake-multi-platform.yml
index 45b263aa1..ec94ea517 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmake-multi-platform.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmake-multi-platform.yml
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        # make sure we have the tags, for cmake/git versioning
+        fetch-depth: 0
 
     - name: Set reusable strings
       id: strings