Can't upload binaries compiled in previous jobs, as cloning step fails due to directory not being empty

[ConorHartin]

Orb version:

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What happened:

I am running pyinstaller in both windows & linux executors, and persisting the namespace containing the output of those jobs so it will be available in the github-cli orb so I can upload those files specifically. If I attach that namespace to the upload job, then it never gets to the upload command because the clone command fails due to the "." directory not being empty. If I run pre-steps commands to create a tmp folder and cd into that, it just gets ignored and the orb's clone command (which I don't actually need to run, as I already cloned the repo in question in order to run pyinstaller on it to generate the files I actually want to upload) runs from the default directory. There doesn't seem to be a way to set the working_directory of an orb job as far as I can tell. It's possible this is not a limitation of the orb and I'm just not configuring it correctly, but I currently don't see a way to configure it to do that.
I also tried running the release job, but that always times out on CircleCI, appearing to hang indefinitely.

Expected behavior:

To be able to upload files created outside the githhub-cli orb.

Additional Information: