Remove ".git" after cloning, with option to disable #1181

Job	Run time
CI on centos-stream-fsf-latest	6m 28s
CI on debian-stable	6m 21s
CI on fedora-latest	6m 2s
CI on ubuntu-lts	4m 52s
CI on arch-rolling	5m 17s
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