Speed up git clone in Remote development workspace with blobless clone

Overview

Currently, cloning the gitlab repository in Remote development workspace takes about 3-4 minutes, which slows down the GDK setup. We can switch to a blobless clone method to speed up this process.

Impacted categories

The following categories relate to this issue:

• gdk-reliability - e.g. When a GDK action fails to complete.
• gdk-usability - e.g. Improvements or suggestions around how the GDK functions.
• gdk-performance - e.g. When a GDK action is slow or times out.

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• The contents of your gdk.yml (if any)
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