- Create normal working clones for remote repositories
- Initialize blank repositories with a main branch
- Align pull and branch helpers with unborn HEAD handling
- Gate fetch/pull on repositories with a remote
Quality gates: vitest repositories-settings-tab (passed); api pytest blocked by missing fastapi in environment
- Remove useless git diff --numstat call that failed in bare repos
- Use raw bytes instead of text decoding to avoid encoding issues
- Properly check subprocess return codes
Fixes false positive binary detection for text files like .env.sample