diff --git a/.ci-scripts/build-gitstats.sh b/.ci-scripts/build-gitstats.sh
index 62a287128..4cd13c2dc 100755
--- a/.ci-scripts/build-gitstats.sh
+++ b/.ci-scripts/build-gitstats.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# Scripts for generating gitstats on travis
+# Scripts for generating gitstats in CI
 #
 # Downloads current git repo, and builds its stats.
 
@@ -26,11 +26,6 @@
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
 
-# need to download whole history, since travis does only a shallow clone
-get_repo() {
-    git clone https://github.com/qTox/qTox.git
-}
-
 make_stats() {
     # workaround gitstats not supporting non-blocking IO correctly see
     # https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/4704#issuecomment-348435959
@@ -40,7 +35,7 @@ make_stats() {
     gitstats \
         -c authors_top=1000 \
         -c max_authors=100000 \
-        qTox \
+        . \
         "$GITSTATS_DIR"
 }
 
@@ -51,7 +46,6 @@ verify_exists() {
 
 
 main() {
-    get_repo
     make_stats
     verify_exists
 }
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-test-deploy.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-test-deploy.yaml
index ef314bd03..7f55233f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-test-deploy.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-test-deploy.yaml
@@ -517,6 +517,8 @@ jobs:
       GITSTATS_DIR: gitstats
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Install gitstats
         run: sudo apt-get install gitstats
       - name: Run