The [PR "Add --fetch-branches and --fetch-tags options"](https://github.com/devrandom/gitian-builder/pull/245) has been merged, thus the step https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-gitian/pull/43/commits/cc319c43388cceffc7e48f22d3a67c00fd1d454e is no longer needed, but the newly added options need to be specified when building.