Avoid the_repository in merge-ort and replay #26513

Job	Run time
config	7s
fuzz smoke test	1m 20s
rust-analysis	1m 36s
win build	5m 11s
sparse	3m 29s
win+Meson build	5m 47s
static-analysis	5m 24s
osx-reftable (macos-14)	6m 28s
documentation	6m 14s
osx-gcc (macos-14)	6m 32s
osx-meson (macos-14)	6m 15s
osx-clang (macos-14)	6m 29s
linux-asan-ubsan (ubuntu:rolling)	6m 2s
linux-meson (ubuntu:rolling)	6m 2s
fedora-breaking-changes-meson (fedora:latest)	6m 2s
linux32 (i386/ubuntu:focal)	6m 3s
linux-leaks (ubuntu:rolling)	6m 2s
linux-sha256 (ubuntu:rolling)	6m 3s
almalinux-8 (almalinux:8)	5m 25s
linux-TEST-vars (ubuntu:20.04)	5m 31s
linux-musl-meson (alpine:latest)	1m 50s
debian-11 (debian:11)	50s
linux-reftable-leaks (ubuntu:rolling)	4m 40s
linux-breaking-changes (ubuntu:rolling)	4m 24s
win+VS build	0s
linux-reftable (ubuntu:rolling)	6m 3s
win+VS test	0s
win test (3)	8m 10s
win test (0)	8m 46s
win test (7)	6m 49s
win test (1)	7m 4s
win test (2)	8m 38s
win test (9)	8m 49s
win test (6)	6m 26s
win test (8)	6m 13s
win test (5)	6m 45s
win test (4)	8m 37s
win+Meson test (3)	37s
win+Meson test (1)	35s
win+Meson test (0)	40s
win+Meson test (8)	37s
win+Meson test (5)	39s
win+Meson test (6)	31s
win+Meson test (7)	31s
win+Meson test (9)	35s
win+Meson test (2)	34s
win+Meson test (4)	39s
	3h 22m 4s

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