diff --git a/src/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemote.php b/src/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemote.php
index 4e9390a2..cde1f5ba 100644
--- a/src/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemote.php
+++ b/src/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemote.php
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ public function __invoke(
 
         $credentialStore = Filesystem\create_temporary_file();
 
+        Shell\execute('git', ['config', '--global', '--add', 'safe.directory', '*'], $repositoryRootDirectory);
         Shell\execute('git', ['config', 'credential.helper', 'store --file=' . $credentialStore], $repositoryRootDirectory);
         File\write($credentialStore, $uriWithCredentials->__toString());
         Shell\execute('git', ['remote', 'add', 'origin', $repositoryUri->__toString()], $repositoryRootDirectory);
diff --git a/test/unit/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemoteTest.php b/test/unit/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemoteTest.php
index e0bdb193..a4547a11 100644
--- a/test/unit/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemoteTest.php
+++ b/test/unit/Git/FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemoteTest.php
@@ -129,4 +129,20 @@ public function testFailingToSetARemoteWillNotLeadToSecretExfiltration(): void
             self::assertDoesNotMatchRegularExpression('/SUPERSECRET/m', $failure->getMessage());
         }
     }
+
+    public function testGlobalGitConfigurationIsAdaptedToAllowCheckedOutRepositoryUsage(): void
+    {
+        $sourceUri = $this->createMock(UriInterface::class);
+
+        $sourceUri->method('__toString')
+            ->willReturn($this->source);
+
+        (new FetchAndSetCurrentUserByReplacingCurrentOriginRemote($this->variables))
+            ->__invoke($sourceUri, $sourceUri, $this->destination);
+
+        self::assertSame(
+            '*',
+            Str\trim(Shell\execute('git', ['config', '--get', 'safe.directory'], $this->destination))
+        );
+    }
 }