Cannot Exclude '.git' folder when vendoring top-level of git repo

[BronzeDeer]

What steps did you take:
Vendor a repository from git with **/* or empty includePaths and excludePaths set to .git/.

What happened:
the .git folder was present in the vendored folder, causing git to detect a sub-project and storing metadata of the vendored project

What did you expect:
the .git folder not being copied to the vendored folder, hiding git metadata of the vendored repository

Anything else you would like to add:
I also tried various other combinations for specifing the git folder including postfixing with **/*, prefixing with the content path, omitting the trailing slash, prefixing with ./ etc

Environment:

• vendir version (execute vendir --version): 0.43.0
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

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