diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 64b31c9ad..bcba6cbc9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
         run: ./gradlew --no-daemon -PmaxParallelForks=1 clean integrationTest
 
   build-platform:
-    name: test with JDK=${{matrix.java-dist}}-${{matrix.java-ver}} on ${{matrix.hw_platform}}
+    name: platform build with JDK=${{matrix.java-dist}}-${{matrix.java-ver}} on ${{matrix.hw_platform}}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ jobs:
         hw_platform: [ 's390x' ]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0 # so gradle doesn't fail traversing the history
       - run: |
           # install required qemu libraries
           docker run --rm --privileged tonistiigi/binfmt:latest --install all