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Seperate the concerns of general automatic mode (checking out/updating operations/mediawiki-core and post-prep patch application) from automatic mediawiki branch selection.
Allow 'branch_cut_pretest' as a branch name.
These changes allow us to use "scap prep --auto branch_cut_pretest" to validate security patches ahead of the train.