Increased checkout fetch depth; Added display of git describe

Signed-off-by: Andreas Maier <maiera@de.ibm.com>

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -152,13 +152,25 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout repo
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
+        fetch-depth: 50
+
+    # - name: Downgrade Git version to 2.46.1
+    #   run: |
+    #     sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa
+    #     sudo apt-get update
+    #     sudo apt-get install -y git=2.46.1
+    # - name: Verify Git version
+    #   run: git --version
+
     - name: Display git log
       run: |
         git log -1 --decorate
     - name: Display git status
       run: |
         git status
+    - name: Display git describe
+      run: |
+        git describe --dirty --tags --long --match "*[0-9]*"
     - name: Set up Python 3.10
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with: