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git-combine: add cli arg to tune how often git gc --aggressive runs

Administrator requested to merge git-combine-aggressive into main

Created by: ggilmore

This pr makes git-combine periodically run git gc --aggressive for maintenance purposes against the repository it's maintaining. The frequency of git gc --aggressive is controlled by a new gc-ratio command line argument, which defaults to running it roughly once every 3 days.

On dogfood, gitserver was unable to clone the gigarepo until git gc --aggressive was manually run. As a result of repository size went from ~75 gigabytes to ~25 gigabytes.

Test plan

This change is for a utility command, and doesn't affect the main sourcegraph application.

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