forking a repository within the same group only possible through the API

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Proposal

When we try to fork a repository in a namespace, the UI doesn't allow us to create the fork in the same namespace, but the API does.

Steps to reproduce:

• create a namespace
• create a repository
• click on fork on this repository
• the project URL shows all the namespace the user has access, but doesn't show the namespace where the repository is
• if we use an API call curl --request POST --data "namespace_id=NAMESPACE_ID" --data "name=REPO_FORK" --data "path=REPO_FORK" --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/PROJECT_ID/fork" this works, we can fork it in the same namespace with a different name

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