[content-init] Workspace images containing files in /workspace break content init

[csweichel]

Bug description

When a workspace image contains files in /workspace/${checkoutLocation} the content init fails with

cannot initialize workspace: cannot initialize workspace: git initializer: git clone --depth=1 --no-single-branch https://github.com/your-org/your-repo.git . failed (exit status 128): fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.

Steps to reproduce

Start a workspace with an image which contains files in /workspace/your-repo

Workspace affected

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Expected behavior

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Example repository

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Anything else?

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[sagor999]

@csweichel what do you think is an appropriate solution for this? 🤔
Or should we just provide a better error to user when this happens so that they know why WS failed?

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