fix: suppress background git maintenance during fedora kernel-ark; avoids stale runner#2142
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Fedora kernel-ark has now grown so complex that during Fedora 43 build, git maintenance becomes likely to fire (lots of commit-graph and pack-objects). In which event RAM and swap on ubuntu-latest runners becomes exhausted. There are then no resources left to resolve this and the runner goes stale, losing connection to the management plane. So, set git 'maintenance.auto' to false (solution credited has to go to Claude) Since the clone of kernel-ark is temporary the maintanance should have little net value.
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Fedora 43's kernel-ark repository has grown large enough that
git maintenance.auto fires routinely during builds, spawning
parallel commit-graph and pack-objects processes that exhaust
RAM and swap on ubuntu-latest runners, causing the runner to
go stale.
Setting maintenance.auto false before the build removes
this. Since kernel-ark is cloned fresh each run and discarded
afterwards, skipping maintenance should have no net negative effect.
Tested: successful v7.0.7 https://github.com/orthogonaleety/linux-surface/tree/f43-7-0-x , see actions. (NB: package itself not yet tested, only that build can at least complete)