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Add clarification about PAT auth not using username is intentional behavior

Hannah Sutor requested to merge hsutor-master-patch-6a63 into master

What does this MR do and why?

There was confusion from a user who thought that username was evaluated when passing a PAT for authentication. This is not the case, but is never stated in the docs. Incorrect username in Git clone command still a... (#486299)

Also works as a fix for https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-OKRs/-/issues/8472+

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