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Speed up migration squasher

Kev Kloss requested to merge kkloss-speed-up-migration-squasher into master

What does this MR do and why?

This speeds up the migration squasher (rake gitlab:db:squash) by skipping to pass files that don’t exist to 'git rm'.

On my laptop, the task takes about 265s before the change, which drops down to about 38.033s ± 0.658s after the change. I didn’t measure a full hyperfine run because it would've taken over half an hour. About a 86% drop should be significant enough though.

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Run bundle exec rake gitlab:db:squash\[origin/16-3-stable-ee\]
  2. See that it finishes in less than half a minute
Edited by Kev Kloss

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