fix(build): add shallow clone options to git helper functions

[Mr-Neutr0n]

Fixes #2894

Unify shallow clone options in git helper functions to reduce network traffic in CI by adding depth=1 and other optimized flags to git clone operations.

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[nuclearcat]

Thanks for the PR, but I don't think this can go in as-is.
First, it doesnt looks like it is passed any reasonable human review.

This doesn't address #2894.
That issue is specifically about the rootfs builder scripts under config/rootfs/debos/scripts/, which currently contain 21 git clone/git fetch sites mixing full clones, --depth=1, --depth 1 and --single-branch --no-checkout. The task there is to pick a consistent set of options, document it, and apply it across those scripts. This PR doesn't touch any of them, so it shouldn't say "Fixes #2894".

clone_git() is effectively dead code.
Its only caller is the FetchFirmware step in the legacy kci_build flow, which is deprecated (see doc/deprecated/kci_build.md). The maintained build path in kernelci/kbuild.py doesn't use it at all; it unpacks a cached linux-firmware.tar.gz instead. So there's no CI traffic saved by this change in practice.

Also worth noting: #2894 already has a contributor working on it.