The repository importer asserts that newly created repositories have a
"hooks" directory created. Historically, this fact was quite important
given that this was indeed a symlink to a directory containing Gitaly's
hook scripts. Nowadays though this is not required anymore given that
Gitaly locates hooks via the "core.hooksPath" config entry. As such, the
"hooks" directory will not contain anything specific but only the set of
default hook templates copied over by Git from the template directory.
These templates do not serve any purpose at all, except that they may
help authors of new hook scripts to discover which hooks exist and which
inputs they may get.

It is quite unlikely that an admin will develop hook scripts on a
production server by using the templates installed by Git, and in fact
the normal "hooks" directory isn't even used anymore given that we
override it in Gitaly. If an admin wants to install server-side hooks,
then those must be installed into a Gitaly-specific "custom_hooks"
directory anyway. So at best the initialized "hooks" directory does
nothing, at worst it is actively confusing to admins wanting to install
their own set of hooks.

In Gitaly, we have thus decided to get rid of the default templates
installed by git-init(1) and git-clone(1) completely. As a result, there
won't be a sample set of hooks, but there also won't be the template for
excludes in "info/excludes" or the default description in "description".
This not only fixes the confusion, but also saves a bit of disk space
and will help us at a later point to be able to bundle Git as a set of
binaries instead of requiring a full Git installation.

Long story short: to the best of my knowledge, Rails doesn't rely on
these files to exist, and they don't do anything anyway. There is one
test though which verifies that the hooks directory exists after having
created the repo, which will break when we stop installing templates. So
let's fix this test to not require presence of this directory anymore.

Adding another check for applied badges to make them more stable

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73241

Add item to check UX impact of the experiment

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72717

Reference /etc/gitlab/initial_root_password for default password

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73301

Adding new e2e test for praefect sync repo mgmt commands

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72565

Replace v-html with v-safe-html to improve frontend security posture

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72912

Upgraded autosize to latest version

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73181

Enable `surface_environment_creation_failure` feature flag by default

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72194

Add rspec-jh and as-if-jh jobs to run when MR has pipeline:run-as-if-jh label

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72959

Add guideline to redeploy review app from a clean slate

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73240

Migrate Terraform template to use rules syntax

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!69634

Refactor package tests to separate by endpoint level

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!70500

Implement the All on-demand DAST scans tab

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72868

Promote empty_repo_upload experiment

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73111

Update Gitaly version

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73325

Exclude Project Bots from Deactivation in DeactivateDormantUsersWorker

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73028

Dormant project bots are no longer automatically deactivated

Changelog: fixed

Simplify class field when logging bulk arguments

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73317

Update style for schema-based validation flag

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73213

Omit WHERE clause for NOT labels filter when empty

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73230

In https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/73223/diffs, we
were previously logging a Hash of elements for `class` when we really
just needed the class name. The mismatched types was causing
Elasticsearch to drop these log messages.

Merge branch '344084-create-index-on-vulnerability_occurrence_pipelines-to-speed-up-vulnerability-report' into 'master'

Add an index on vulnerability_occurrence_pipelines

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73255

Invalidate namespace_user_cap_reached Cache

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72657

Turn on the Feature Flag of ZenTao

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72958

Changelog: other

Update doc/user/project/integrations/webhook_events.md with private email info

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73310

Pass formats explicitly when rendering svg icons

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73291

Disallow to create different environments per job retry

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!72970

Pass array of stages to build seed

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73094

Update Iteration Burnup/down Charts Version Intro

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!50556