fix CI issues with code checkout

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Optimized CI/CD workflow to improve build process reliability and efficiency by adjusting dependency installation steps.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CI workflow reorders Git installation to occur earlier in the job execution, before the repository checkout step. Added inline documentation specifies the Git ≥ 2.18 requirement to prevent fallback to the REST API. The redundant Git installation and apt-get update are removed from the later base-dependencies step.

Changes

CI Git Installation Reordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Git installation reordering .github/workflows/ci.yml	Git installation with apt-get update is moved earlier in the CI workflow before checkout operations, with added documentation about the Git ≥ 2.18 requirement. The redundant git installation is removed from the later "Install base dependencies" step, which now installs only cmake, build-essential, and ninja-build.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Poem

🐰 Git hops forth before checkout's play,
Apt-get update now clears the way,
No redundant lines shall clutter the shore,
Dependencies flow just as before! 🎯

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title directly addresses the main change: reorganizing CI workflow to install Git earlier and separately to resolve checkout issues.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 159: Rename the duplicate GitHub Actions step named "Install base
dependencies" so the two steps are distinguishable in CI logs; locate the step
whose name string is exactly "Install base dependencies" (the earlier
occurrence) and change its name to something specific like "Install Git" or
"Install Git for checkout" while leaving the actual install commands unchanged;
ensure only the name field is updated so the workflow behavior remains
identical.

🪄 Autofix (Beta)

Fix all unresolved CodeRabbit comments on this PR:

• Push a commit to this branch (recommended)
• Create a new PR with the fixes

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml