Building new site package fails with an error on random system configurations

[KaterinaPashkevich]

Description

Building a new site package ends with the git error:
fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

Steps to reproduce

Build a new site template using the script:

export starter_name=b1 && \
export dest='/path/to/'${starter_name} && \
cd /repo/Bodiless-JS/ && \
git clean -fxd && npm i && \
/Users/user_name/someFolder/someFolder/Bodiless-JS/packages/bodiless-cli/bin/bodiless new -r HEAD --clone-local --dest ${dest} --name ${starter_name} --site-template '__vital_next__' && \
cd '/path/to/'${starter_name} && \
git status 

note: replace path and options as needed , for ex.:

export starter_name=b1 && \
export dest='/Users/Katerina_Pashkevich/Documents/WorkingFolder/new-site/'${starter_name} && \
cd Bodiless/Bodiless-JS
git clean -fxd && npm i && \
/Users/Katerina_Pashkevich/Documents/WorkingFolder/Bodiless/Bodiless-JS/packages/bodiless-cli/bin/bodiless new -r HEAD --clone-local --dest ${dest} --name ${starter_name} --site-template '__vital_next__' && \
cd ../../new-site/${starter_name} && \
git status 

Expected result

Site building process completed successfully, no errors observed

Actual result

Error occurs

Building package...

> b1-monorepo@0.0.0 build:packages
> npx -y turbo build --filter=./packages/*

 ERROR  run failed: error hashing package files: git error: 'git ls-tree' in /Users/Katerina_Pashkevich/Documents/WorkingFolder/new-site/b1/packages/b1 exited with code 128 stderr: fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

Turbo error: error hashing package files: git error: 'git ls-tree' in /Users/Katerina_Pashkevich/Documents/WorkingFolder/new-site/b1/packages/b1 exited with code 128 stderr: fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Users/Katerina_Pashkevich/Documents/WorkingFolder/new-site/b1
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c ./postinstall.sh

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Katerina_Pashkevich/.npm/_logs/2023-07-06T18_10_38_788Z-debug-0.log
    Error: Exit code 1 in npm

Environment

OS: MacOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a)
node v18.16.1

Note: reproducible only on specific system configurations

Affected Version

branch on which the issue occurs.