diff --git a/.github/workflows/images.yaml b/.github/workflows/images.yaml
index d6bc421..510a56c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/images.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/images.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ jobs:
           echo "push=${PUSH}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: docker://quay.io/cilium/image-maker:e55375ca5ccaea76dc15a0666d4f57ccd9ab89de
         name: Register binfmt from multi-platform builds
         with:
diff --git a/scripts/make-image-tag.sh b/scripts/make-image-tag.sh
index 342d623..3a9f991 100755
--- a/scripts/make-image-tag.sh
+++ b/scripts/make-image-tag.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ root_dir="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
 cd "${root_dir}"
 
 if [ "$#" -eq 1 ] ; then
-  # if one argument was given, assume it's a directory and obtain a tree hash
+  # if one argument was given, assume it's a directory and retrieve its last commit to generate a tag
   image_dir="${1}"
   if ! [ -d "${image_dir}" ] ; then
     echo "${image_dir} is not a directory (path is relative to git root)"