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Hi Prefect team! :wave:

I’m encountering an issue with `GitRepository` storage in my Prefect deployment and could use some help. Here’s the setup:
• *Context*: I’m trying to set up `GitRepository` storage to fetch flow definitions from a GitLab repository as described <https://docs.prefect.io/v3/deploy/run-flows-in-local-processes#retrieve-a-flow-from-remote-storage|in the docs>.
• *Problem*: The storage setup fails to pull the repository correctly. The first `GitRepository.pull_code` is successful, because it clones the repo. All subsequent pulls fail with the following error:
```ERROR   | prefect.runner.storage.git-repository.data-collection - Failed to pull latest changes with exit code Command '['git', 'pull', 'origin', '--depth', '1']' returned non-zero exit status 128```
• *What I’ve Tried*: I’ve tried manually running `git clone <repo> --depth 1`  and making some changes, then pulling again with `git pull origin --depth 1`. This also fails with the following exception: `fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories`. I’ve tried setting `git config --global pull.rebase true`. But that doesn’t help.
How can I configure git to work with the prefect `GitRepository` storage?

I’d appreciate any insights or guidance on what might be going wrong. Let me know if you need additional details or logs!
Thanks in advance for your support! :pray:

Here’s the code to setup the `GitRepository` :

`prefect_environment.py`
```import os
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path

from prefect.runner.storage import GitRepository


def _get_project_source():
    return Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent


def get_default_config():
    relative_config = "resources/sources/config.yml"
    return _get_project_source() / relative_config


def get_deamon_source():
    # Running on a server.
    repo = os.environ.get("GITLAB_REPO")
    if repo:
        access_token = os.environ.get("GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN")
        credentials = None
        if access_token:
            credentials = {"access_token": access_token}
        repo = GitRepository(repo, credentials)
        return repo
    else:
        # Running locally.
        return str(_get_project_source())

def get_git_commit():
    # Check if the directory is a valid git repository
    try:
        commit_hash = subprocess.check_output(
            ["git", "-C", _get_project_source(), "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD"],
            text=True,
        ).strip()
        return commit_hash
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
        print(f"Could not retrieve git commit for directory: {_get_project_source()}")
        return None```

`prefect_deamon.py`
```from datetime import timedelta

from prefect import flow

from data_collection.prefect_environment import get_deamon_source

if __name__ == "__main__":
    deployment = flow.from_source(
        source=get_deamon_source(),
        entrypoint="src/data_collection/prefect_flow.py:download_all",
    )

    # Schedule the deployment to run every day
    deployment.serve(
        name="data-collection-deamon",
        interval=timedelta(hours=24),
    )```