Recommend Git's manyFiles feature (#25977)

Git 2.24 introduced a feature flag for repositories with many files, see:
https://github.blog/2019-11-03-highlights-from-git-2-24/#feature-macros

Since Spack's Git repository contains roughly 8,500 files, it can be
worthwhile to enable this, especially on slow file systems such as NFS:
```
$ hyperfine --warmup 3 'cd spack-default; git status' 'cd spack-manyfiles; git status'
Benchmark #1: cd spack-default; git status
  Time (mean ± σ):      3.388 s ±  0.095 s    [User: 256.2 ms, System: 625.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):    3.168 s …  3.535 s    10 runs

Benchmark #2: cd spack-manyfiles; git status
  Time (mean ± σ):     168.7 ms ±  10.9 ms    [User: 98.6 ms, System: 126.1 ms]
  Range (min … max):   144.8 ms … 188.0 ms    19 runs

Summary
  'cd spack-manyfiles; git status' ran
   20.09 ± 1.42 times faster than 'cd spack-default; git status'
```
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To install spack and your first package, make sure you have Python.
Then:
$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ cd spack/bin
$ ./spack install zlib

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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Getting Spack is easy. You can clone it from the `github repository
.. code-block:: console
$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git
This will create a directory called ``spack``.

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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ package:
.. code-block:: console
$ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git
$ cd spack/bin
$ ./spack install libelf