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Improve example in workflow:name docs

Reuben Pereira requested to merge rp/improve-workflow-name-docs into master

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The example in workflow:name documentation uses CI_COMMIT_BRANCH for a merge_request_event. But CI_COMMIT_BRANCH is not available for merge requests. This MR changes it to use CI_MERGE_REQUEST_SOURCE_BRANCH_NAME instead.

Also add a note about an upstream pipeline's PIPELINE_NAME variable potentially overriding a variable with the same name since trigger variables have higher precedence (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/#cicd-variable-precedence).

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