`git clone <url> .` works only into a genuinely empty directory. verified: one
file makes it fail, and so does one HIDDEN file.
which is not an edge case on this machine — a commander's directory holds
CLAUDE.md and state/, and a plugin's chat directory holds a CLAUDE.md the
platform wrote. cloning into either fails outright.
the fetch-into-place workaround is written down because it is the answer, and
so is the thing it does quietly: `git checkout FETCH_HEAD -- .` OVERWRITES a
colliding file without asking. verified by doing it in a directory that had a
CLAUDE.md and watching it become the template's. in a commander directory that
is the brief gone, and the commander would come back next turn not knowing what
its job is.
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