fixes distinction between renaming a file and updating its content

While using Gitlab UI to edit a file it changes the file permissions this MR aims to fix it

• CHANGELOG entry added
• Documentation created/updated
• API support added
• Tests
  • Added for this feature/bug
  • All builds are passing
• Conform by the style guides
• Branch has no merge conflicts with master (if you do - rebase it please)
• Squashed related commits together

Closes #21092 (closed)