diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 0a2d00398..9ccef2620 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - run: git fetch --tags --force
+        name: Force-fetch tags to work around actions/checkout#290
       # We can't use `--depth 1` here sadly because the GNU config
       # submodule is not pinned to a particular tag/branch. Please
       # bump depth (or even better, the submodule), in case of "error:
@@ -105,6 +107,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - run: git fetch --tags --force
+        name: Force-fetch tags to work around actions/checkout#290
       - run: git submodule update --init --depth 32 --jobs 3
       - name: Build
         shell: msys2 {0}
@@ -137,6 +141,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - run: git fetch --tags --force
+        name: Force-fetch tags to work around actions/checkout#290
 
       - run: git submodule update --init --depth 32 --jobs 3