diff --git a/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml b/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
index d2da41ce..7272f162 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
@@ -19,22 +19,22 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         echo "version=$(jq .version metadata.json.in)" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
+    - name: Setup Git user
+      run: |
+        git config user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
+        git config user.email '41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+
+    - run: .github/bump-version.sh
+
     - name: Get latest version tag
       id: get_tag
       run: |
-        echo "tag=$(git describe --tags --match="v[0-9]*" --abbrev=0 HEAD)" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT
+        echo "tag=$(git describe --tags --match='v[0-9]*' --abbrev=0 HEAD)" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
     - name: Check version matches the latest tag
       run: |
         test "v${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}" = "${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}"
 
-    - name: Setup Git user
-      run: |
-        git config user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
-        git config user.email '41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
-
-    - run: .github/bump-version.sh
-
     - name: Push
       run: |
         git push
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 1f2afd20..41cc191f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        fetch-tags: true
 
     - name: Read version from metadata
       id: get_version