diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 5ccf506..f1eae84 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0 # needed to stop awesome-lint age issues as per https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-lint/issues/105#issuecomment-637475566
       - uses: max/awesome-lint@v2.0.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9660789..8be4df1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<!--lint disable awesome-badge-->
 # Awesome Rust Actions
 
 > A curated list of awesome GitHub Actions for Rust programming language ecosystem