Gitlab CI: git retry when cloning fails

cmake_targets/autotests/run_exec_lte-softmodem_tests.py

@@ -1426,14 +1426,26 @@ for oai in oai_list:
      
       setuplogfile  = logdir  + '/setup_log_' + MachineList[index] + '_.txt'
       setup_script  = locallogdir  + '/setup_script_' + MachineList[index] +  '_.txt'
+
+      #Sometimes git fails so the script below retries in that case
+      localfile = os.path.expandvars('$OPENAIR_DIR/cmake_targets/autotests/tools/git-retry.sh')
+      remotefile = logdir + '/git-retry.sh'
+      paramList=[]
+      port=22
+      paramList.append ( {"operation":'put', "localfile":localfile, "remotefile":remotefile} )
+      sftp_log = os.path.expandvars(locallogdir + '/sftp_module.log')
+      sftp_module (user, pw, MachineList[index], port, paramList, sftp_log)
+
+
       cmd = ' ( \n'
       #cmd = cmd  + 'rm -fR ' +  logdir + '\n'
       #cmd = cmd + 'mkdir -p ' + logdir + '\n'
       cmd = cmd + 'cd '+ logdir   + '\n'
-      cmd = cmd + 'sudo apt-get install git \n'
+      cmd = cmd + 'sudo apt-get install -y git \n'
       cmd = cmd + 'git config --global http.sslVerify false \n' 
-      cmd = cmd + 'git clone  '+ GitOAI5GRepo  +' \n'
-      cmd = cmd + 'git clone '+ GitOpenaircnRepo + ' \n'
+      cmd = cmd + 'chmod 700 ' + logdir + '/git-retry.sh \n' 
+      cmd = cmd + logdir + '/git-retry.sh clone  '+ GitOAI5GRepo  +' \n'
+      cmd = cmd + logdir + '/git-retry.sh clone '+ GitOpenaircnRepo + ' \n'
       cmd = cmd +  'cd ' + logdirOAI5GRepo  + '\n'
       cmd = cmd + 'git checkout ' + GitOAI5GRepoBranch   + '\n'                      
       #cmd = cmd + 'git checkout ' + GitOAI5GHeadVersion   + '\n'