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Note that idempotent jobs are deduplicated

Bob Van Landuyt requested to merge bvl-add-deduplication-note-docs into master

What does this MR do?

Add a note to our dev docs that idempotent jobs are automatically deduplicated, including a link to the explanation of that deduplication.

Related issues

Brought up in gitlab-com/gl-infra/scalability#341 (comment 337537080)

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