Cannot clone repositories when not inside a git repository

[ivomurrell]

Now that we can no longer assume the HEAD branch of the git remote we're cloning, we call git remote show to ascertain what the active branch is (usually main in our repositories.) However, bizarrely, the git command fails to run if we aren't running nori inside a directory with a .git directory, throwing an error of

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Not sure what the best way around this is, perhaps by setting the CWD to the repository we've cloned when running the git show command (making sure to only get the HEAD branch after we've cloned,) so that we'd always be running it in a directory with a .git directory?

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