directory: Ensure temporary directory does not exist prior creating it

This should mitigate issues observed in production/staging environment, see SWH-LOADER-MERCURIAL-3F.

yes, let's try.

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Shouldn't we rather give clone_repository a (non-existent) subdirectory of the temporary directory? This will still create the toplevel directory