Replace setup_lfs action with single file checkout

[atharva-2001]

📝 Description

Type: 🪲 bugfix | 🚀 feature | ☣️ breaking change | 🚦 testing | 📝 documentation | 🎢 infrastructure

The setup_lfs action uses the entire regression data repo, even though it is cached. Downloading the atom data file might consume fewer resources and prevent the LFS bandwidth from being used too much.

📌 Resources

Examples, notebooks, and links to useful references.

🚦 Testing

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☑️ Checklist

• I requested two reviewers for this pull request
• I updated the documentation according to my changes
• I built the documentation by applying the build_docs label

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[tardis-bot]

*beep* *bop*
Hi human,
I ran ruff on the latest commit (f251c2f).
Here are the outputs produced.
Results can also be downloaded as artifacts here.
Summarised output:

7	W291	[*] Trailing whitespace
2	E999	[ ] SyntaxError: Expected an expression
2	W293	[*] Blank line contains whitespace

Complete output(might be large):

.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:3:4: E999 SyntaxError: Expected an expression
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:20:5: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:86:49: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:116:81: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:117:54: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:204:1: W293 [*] Blank line contains whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:223:22: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:224:170: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:226:84: W291 [*] Trailing whitespace
.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml:243:1: W293 [*] Blank line contains whitespace
.github/workflows/build-docs.yml:7:4: E999 SyntaxError: Expected an expression
Found 11 errors.
[*] 9 fixable with the `--fix` option.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 70.70%. Comparing base (81ec6e8) to head (f251c2f).
Report is 1 commits behind head on master.

Additional details and impacted files

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- Coverage   71.08%   70.70%   -0.38%     
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- Hits        11248    11188      -60     
- Misses       4575     4635      +60     

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[andrewfullard]

This is definitely the only regression data file required for these actions?

[tardis-bot]

*beep* *bop*
Hi human,
I ran benchmarks as you asked comparing master (81ec6e8) and the latest commit (f251c2f).
Here are the logs produced by ASV.
Results can also be downloaded as artifacts here.

Significantly changed benchmarks:

All benchmarks:

Benchmarks that have stayed the same:

| Change   | Before [81ec6e8e] <master>   | After [f251c2f9]    | Ratio   | Benchmark (Parameter)                                                                                                               |
|----------|------------------------------|---------------------|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          | 2.98±0.5μs                   | 3.50±0.4μs          | ~1.17   | transport_montecarlo_vpacket.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaVpacket.time_trace_bad_vpacket                                       |
|          | 7.75±2μs                     | 6.98±2μs            | ~0.90   | transport_montecarlo_vpacket.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaVpacket.time_trace_vpacket_volley                                    |
|          | 3.80±0.4μs                   | 3.43±0.2μs          | ~0.90   | transport_montecarlo_vpacket.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaVpacket.time_trace_vpacket_within_shell                              |
|          | 2.18±1μs                     | 1.90±0.3μs          | ~0.88   | transport_geometry_calculate_distances.BenchmarkTransportGeometryCalculateDistances.time_calculate_distance_line                    |
|          | 26.7±8μs                     | 23.3±6μs            | ~0.87   | transport_montecarlo_packet_trackers.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloPacketTrackers.time_generate_rpacket_last_interaction_tracker_list |
|          | 7.05±0.6μs                   | 6.12±1μs            | ~0.87   | transport_montecarlo_vpacket.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaVpacket.time_trace_vpacket                                           |
|          | 44.1±30μs                    | 47.9±20μs           | 1.09    | transport_montecarlo_interaction.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloInteraction.time_line_scatter                                          |
|          | 2.14±1μs                     | 2.22±1μs            | 1.04    | transport_montecarlo_estimators_radfield_estimator_calcs.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaPacket.time_update_line_estimators       |
|          | 31.5±0.06μs                  | 32.4±0.02μs         | 1.03    | transport_montecarlo_packet_trackers.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloPacketTrackers.time_generate_rpacket_tracker_list                  |
|          | 718±0.8ns                    | 730±1ns             | 1.02    | transport_montecarlo_interaction.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloInteraction.time_thomson_scatter                                       |
|          | 1.71±0.02ms                  | 1.73±0.01ms         | 1.01    | transport_montecarlo_main_loop.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloMontecarloMainLoop.time_montecarlo_main_loop                             |
|          | 581±80ns                     | 582±200ns           | 1.00    | opacities_opacity.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaOpacities.time_pair_creation_opacity_calculation                                |
|          | 37.4±0.03s                   | 37.5±0.08s          | 1.00    | run_tardis.BenchmarkRunTardis.time_run_tardis                                                                                       |
|          | 1.04±0m                      | 1.04±0m             | 1.00    | run_tardis.BenchmarkRunTardis.time_run_tardis_rpacket_tracking                                                                      |
|          | 2.09±0m                      | 2.08±0m             | 1.00    | spectrum_formal_integral.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloFormalIntegral.time_FormalIntegrator_functions                                 |
|          | 204±0.7ns                    | 205±0.08ns          | 1.00    | spectrum_formal_integral.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloFormalIntegral.time_intensity_black_body                                       |
|          | 561±100ns                    | 551±100ns           | 0.98    | opacities_opacity.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaOpacities.time_compton_opacity_calculation                                      |
|          | 3.90±0.06ms                  | 3.83±0.01ms         | 0.98    | opacities_opacity_state.BenchmarkOpacitiesOpacityState.time_opacity_state_initialize('macroatom')                                   |
|          | 66.3±0.3ms                   | 65.0±0.02ms         | 0.98    | transport_montecarlo_packet_trackers.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloPacketTrackers.time_rpacket_trackers_to_dataframe                  |
|          | 611±200ns                    | 591±100ns           | 0.97    | opacities_opacity.BenchmarkMontecarloMontecarloNumbaOpacities.time_photoabsorption_opacity_calculation                              |
|          | 2.66±0.4ms                   | 2.57±0.5ms          | 0.97    | transport_montecarlo_single_packet_loop.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloSinglePacketLoop.time_single_packet_loop                        |
|          | 1.24±0μs                     | 1.20±0μs            | 0.96    | transport_geometry_calculate_distances.BenchmarkTransportGeometryCalculateDistances.time_calculate_distance_boundary                |
|          | 2.79±0.02ms                  | 2.66±0ms            | 0.95    | opacities_opacity_state.BenchmarkOpacitiesOpacityState.time_opacity_state_initialize('scatter')                                     |
|          | 47.3±30μs                    | 43.3±20μs           | 0.92    | transport_montecarlo_interaction.BenchmarkTransportMontecarloInteraction.time_line_emission                                         |

If you want to see the graph of the results, you can check it here

[atharva-2001]

This is definitely the only regression data file required for these actions?

Yes I think so.
I tested these changes in these workflows-
https://github.com/atharva-2001/tardis/actions/runs/11404461289/job/31733676574
https://github.com/atharva-2001/tardis/actions/runs/11404461295/job/31733676858