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Correct Gitaly auth instructions

Will Chandler (ex-GitLab) requested to merge wc-gitaly-auth into master

What does this MR do?

When I refactored the authentication section in !29721 (merged) I incorrectly assumed that gitlab-secrets.json will create strong tokens for both GitLab-Shell and Gitaly. In actual fact, a token is created for Shell, but not Gitaly.

As a result, following my instructions to just copy over gitlab-secrets.json will cause Gitaly to use an empty string as the key for its authentication token.

This change updates the auth instructions to state that a Gitaly token must be created.

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