diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
index 18c8fce2be9..16f87c22822 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
 
       - name: Get current week number of year
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cache_data.yaml b/.github/workflows/cache_data.yaml
index 6994fe6ad93..44ec399ba1d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cache_data.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cache_data.yaml
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
 
       # Install Micromamba with conda-forge dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml
index 5cf865b8bbb..6698d3a9a2a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_docs.yml
@@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
 
       - name: Get current week number of year
@@ -197,8 +195,6 @@ jobs:
           ref: gh-pages
           # Checkout to this folder instead of the current one
           path: deploy
-          # Download the entire history
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: true
         if: (github.event_name == 'release' || github.event_name == 'push') && (matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest')
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_doctests.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci_doctests.yaml
index c6ce9b0a27a..f384ea0d341 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_doctests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_doctests.yaml
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
 
       # Install Micromamba with conda-forge dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yaml
index 3d346c9c2c1..ef866da89d7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_tests.yaml
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
           lfs: false
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_tests_dev.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci_tests_dev.yaml
index 593029c2859..943a4d2b9b2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_tests_dev.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_tests_dev.yaml
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
           lfs: false
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_tests_legacy.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci_tests_legacy.yaml
index 6e563b6aada..34995ffc210 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_tests_legacy.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_tests_legacy.yaml
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
-          # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
 
       # Install Micromamba with conda-forge dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
index 9eb71dcbf17..e2579edc7a4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
-        # fetch all history so that setuptools-scm works
-        fetch-depth: 0
         persist-credentials: false
 
     - name: Set up Python
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6b936f8b7fa..43e081b3458 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=80", "setuptools-scm>=9.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=80", "setuptools-scm>=10.0.4"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ version_scheme = "release-branch-semver"
 local_scheme = "node-and-date"
 fallback_version = "999.999.999+unknown"
 
+[tool.setuptools_scm.scm.git]
+pre_parse = "fetch_on_shallow"
+
 [tool.codespell]
 ignore-words-list = "astroid,te,tripel,trough"