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Generate and handle a gl_repository param to pass around components

What does this MR do?

Generate an handle a gl_repository param to pass around components

This new param allows us to share project information between components that don't share or don't have access to the same filesystem mountpoints, for example between Gitaly and Rails or between Rails and Gitlab-Shell hooks. The previous parameters are still supported, but if found, gl_repository is prefered. The old parameters should be deprecated once all components support the new format.

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Why was this MR needed?

GitLab components shouldn't pass absolute paths between each other, because we're planning for them to be able to be distributed amongst different hosts with different filesystem mounts.

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Closes #29925 (closed)

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