Git: Clone to an alternate directory name

When performing a git clone I’d like the option to specify an alternate target directory, just as I can with git clone on the command line.

For example, this can be useful when cloning a template repository, making a few edits, then pushing back to a new origin.

The problem as it stands is that the location chosen within VSCode is only for the repository’s parent directory. There does not appear to be a way to specify the destination proper.

To illustrate further, VSCode appears to do the equivalent of:

$ mkdir -p /home/jdandrea/git/my-repo && cd $_
$ git clone https://url/to/repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
. . .

Whereas what I want to do instead is:

$ git clone https://url/to/repo.git /home/jdandrea/git/my-repo
Cloning into '/home/jdandrea/git/my-repo'...
. . .

Note the different clone target of my-repo vs repo.

I tried renaming the directory just after cloning, expecting VSCode to follow the name change, however this does not work as expected and is out-of-scope per #20071.

_Originally posted by @jdandrea in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/103987#issuecomment-674966458_

[yzorg]

Why does VSCode ask for a directory then creates another directory inside of it that matches the repo name? I would to disable that behavior: use the directory I just gave you without adding another folder.

[joaomoreno]

Oh you want a different folder name.