Fix deepening of shallow clones in latest git #1999

Job	Run time
build (ubuntu-latest, node 14, npm 8)	1m 51s
build (ubuntu-latest, node 20, npm 11)	1m 10s
build (ubuntu-latest, node 14, npm 6)	1m 20s
build (windows-latest, node 14, npm 8)	4m 41s
build (windows-latest, node 20, npm 11)	3m 39s
build docs	26s
	13m 7s

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