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Combine cherry-pick pages and redirect one

Amy Qualls requested to merge 439097-aqualls-cherry-pick into master

What does this MR do?

As part of #22236 (closed), recently completed by groupcode review, I needed to review our cherry-picking instructions to ensure they were in sync with the change in the feature. I've known for a while that we had two cherry-pick pages: one in the user docs and one in the Git topic docs. While looking, I discovered these things:

From a SEO angle, I think it makes sense to keep the page in the doc/user hierarchy, redirect the smaller / less-used doc/topics/git page to it, and reduce the number of pages to maintain.

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