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Update reduce repo size documentation

Greg Myers requested to merge docs-update-reduce-repo-size into master

What does this MR do?

Updates and clarifies our Repository Size Reduction documentation.

"Purge files from repository history" can be confusing because:

  • these steps do not reduce repository size on disk or in the UI/API/DB
  • this process is not required for Repository Cleanup to work, and may prevent Repository Cleanup from working as expected
  • steps 4-6 fail with fatal: --mirror can't be combined with refspecs

This MR consolidates the two sets of documentation into one process that rewrites git history and reduces storage.

@nick.thomas

See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/224736#note_495409760 Closes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/221326

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