Bug Fix: Address git clone Error in Deployment Workflows#61
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Why these changes are being introduced: The last fix was an incomplete fix since I assumed that the runner environment was transient. But, with a self-hosted runner, the file/folder structure remains in place after each run. That resulted in the `git clone` step failing the second time the action ran since there were already files in the target directory. How this addresses that need: * Add an `rm` step at the start of each of the three deployment workflows to remove the "repo" directory before the `git clone` command runs to the pull the latest commit into the folder Side effects of this change: None. Relevant ticket(s): * https://mitlibraries.atlassian.net/browse/IN-1327
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I was able to run the dev workflow successfully (as it looks like you did too), and this seems to address the problem we saw earlier in the workflow. 
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