So at some point I got stuck and copied repos/lab_40 to my working directory as cloned_hello. When I checked what I got I found that I have a remote named origin. However, the command
resulted in a nonexistent absolute path error message (/Users/.../working/git/git_immersion/auto/hello)
I don't know if it is valid or not, but it seems that when editing the .git/config file in the cloned repo:
git could get rid of that absolute path and that error message.