Was introduced in the time that GitLab still used NFS, which is not
required anymore in most cases. By removing this, the API it calls will
return empty responses. This interface has to be removed in the next
major release, expected to be 12.0.
This will be necessary when adding gitaly settings. This version
doesn't make any functional changes, but allows us to include this
breaking change in 9.0 and add the needed extra settings in the future
with backwards compatibility
Jacob Vosmaer