refactor: pre-factors for fix in copy_to_directory

[gregmagolan]

Pre-factors for #857.

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Test plan

• Covered by existing test cases

CI

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Test

All tests were cache hits

215 tests (100.0%) were fully cached saving 44s.

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Test

e2e/copy_action

All tests were cache hits

1 test (100.0%) was fully cached saving 73ms.

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Test

e2e/copy_to_directory

All tests were cache hits

6 tests (100.0%) were fully cached saving 583ms.

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Test

e2e/coreutils

All tests were cache hits

4 tests (100.0%) were fully cached saving 423ms.

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Test

e2e/external_copy_to_directory

All tests were cache hits

1 test (100.0%) was fully cached saving 73ms.

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Test

e2e/smoke

All tests were cache hits

6 tests (100.0%) were fully cached saving 2s.

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