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forbid using subrepo as a target #3444

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After introducing support for multiple DVC roots in #3257, in case of following setup:

.
├── .dvc
├── .git
└── subrepo
    ├── data
    ├── data.dvc
    ├── .dvc
    └── .gitignore

Running command dvc push/pull/fetch subrepo/data.dvc will have some unexpected results.
Eg. push will push to remote stored in parent repo.
The reason for that is that we are not resolving Repo basing on target, but cwd.
To solve this, we should either forbid initializing Repo under other Repo, or implement dynamic resolving of target paths.
Other commands that need to be checked for this issue:
destroy, remove, move, repro, status, import, get, root, update, pipeline.

As simply forbidding seems like easier way, we will probably need to solve this problem anyway, to support import and get.

Related to treeverse/dvc.org#1022

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