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MRs don't get pushed to tools, and sometimes we want to deploy the tools version of something by default (so the repo in local.yaml* is tools). This makes sure that if you deploy an MR, the repo is going to be toolsbeta too, no matter what's the original repo config.
Signed-off-by: David Caro dcaro@wikimedia.org