Configure creates git directory not owned by IRIS user

Initializing an empty git repository with Configure() should end up with the repository owned by the operating user of the IRIS instance.
A customer reported that instead the directory was owned by the user who was running the terminal instance.
This was on GSC v 2.6.0 and HealthShare version:
HealthShare Unified Care Record 2024.1.0 Build: 1008 [HealthShare Modules: Health Insight:27.0 + Core:27.0 + Patient Index:27.0] - IRIS for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86-64) 2023.1.2 (Build 450_0_23376U) Wed Apr 24 2024 00:00:42 EDT [Health Insight:27.0|Core:27.0|Patient Index:27.0]