I realized where the N+1 queries were actually coming from
project.protected_branches, but how come we cannot preload this,
or cache this at all?

Then I found that this is somehow a Rails limitation. What we're
doing before, eventually come to:

    project.protected_branches.matching

But why it's not cached? (project.protected_branches.loaded? is always
false) It's because matching is a class method, which is called on
the proxy. In this case, Rails cannot cache the result. I don't know
if this is possible to implement or not, because clearly this would
require some tricks to implement class methods on associations.

So instead, we could just pass project.protected_branches to
ProtectedRef.matching, then it would work regularly.

With this change, there's no more N+1 queries.

Also make sure pipeline would also check against tag as well

* upstream/master: (25 commits)
  Remove unneeded asserts and add tests for inactive RequestStore
  Rename the methods to make it fit with current name
  Follow feedback on the merge request
  Make sure it checks against the tag only when it's a tag
  Renamed Gitaly services
  fix transient rspec failure due to Poll.js race condition
  Refactor variables initialization in dropzone_input.js
  cache the cache key...
  avoid #respond_to? in Cache.id_for
  cache DeclarativePolicy.class_for at the class level
  Update 9.3-to-9.4.md
  fix padding on filtered search dropdown. Styles should only apply to li in list
  Cache Note#notable for commits and fix tests
  Add changelog entry
  Update the comments for the new functionality
  Use RequestStoreWrap for Commit#author
  Skip dead jobs queue for web hooks and project services
  Add RequestStoreWrap to cache via RequestStore
  Don't track cached queries in Gitlab::PerformanceBar::PeekQueryTracker
  Add changelog entry
  ...

Add RequestCache to cache via RequestStore

See merge request !12920

Protect manual actions against protected tag too

Closes #34927

See merge request !12908

Perf: Improve performance of basic ruby ops in DeclarativePolicy

See merge request !12922

fix transient rspec failure due to Poll.js race condition

Closes #35225

See merge request !12930

Renamed Gitaly services

Closes gitaly#379

See merge request !12854

Update 9.3-to-9.4.md

See merge request !12925

don't treat aborted requests as failures, they are often triggered during unload (e.g after clicking a link)

Refactor variables initialization in dropzone_input.js

Closes #29901

See merge request !12768

Remove coffee-rails gem

Closes #34831

See merge request !12715

fix padding on filtered search

Closes #35177

See merge request !12913

We also try to use instance variable to cache the result if
RequestStore is not available, so we could keep the same logic,
using the same cache key. Also introduce a way to specify method
specific cache key

Resolve "Peek performance bar doesn't count cached queries, but shows them"

Closes #34940

See merge request !12915

Resolve "Don't let webhooks jobs go to the dead jobs queue"

Closes #31571

See merge request !12918

Added sub-nav to new group sidebar settings

Closes #35140

See merge request !12907