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Automatically re-try git clone on failure

Martin Langrequested to merge
robust-git-clone into main

With the change the gitlab runner will automatically re-try the initial git clone in case of failures.

This should prevent occasional failures such as (https://gitlab.com/octopus-code/octopus/-/jobs/7353617718)

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Initialized empty Git repository in /scratch/cioctopu/static/7353617718/octopus-code/octopus/.git/
Created fresh repository.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
Error encountered during job: exit status 1
Error encountered during job: Error executing run_exec: exit status 1

Relevant documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/configure_runners.html#job-stages-attempts

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