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No longer require magic username for Git over HTTPS with OAuth token

M Hickford requested to merge gitlab-community/gitlab:hickford-oauth2-username into master
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What does this MR do and why?

Previously, the magic username 'oauth2' was required to access Git over HTTPS with an OAuth access token. This caused problems for Git users with a different username in the remote URL or config key credential.username.

Relaxing the requirement makes it easy to store OAuth access tokens for multiple accounts with git-credential.

This behaviour is consistent with personal access tokens.

Fixes #349461

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