refactor(tools): extract createTemporaryClone() utility function

[petermetz]

This makes the tooling code a more DRY
and is a pre-requisite of some follow-up changes that are about to get proposed
in a separate pull request by Peter that are specific to vendoring the openapi.json spec files.

Signed-off-by: Peter Somogyvari [email protected]

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[jagpreetsinghsasan]

LGTM