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What does this MR do?

This MR adds a warning above the rake task sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:cleanup:repos which is "currently" (since 11 months) not working as expected (cf. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/24633) and seems to mark all existing repositories as orphaned.

Currently while following the docs, it pictures that using this task will only rename abandoned repositories - but thats not what it is doing currently.

Related issues

gitlab-org/gitlab-ee#24633

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