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Documentation: refs cleanup is enabled since 16.6

Sjoerd Langkemper requested to merge Sjord/gitlab:Sjord-master-patch-02227 into master

What does this MR do and why?

Merge request refs cleanup is enabled since 16.6

It was introduced in 13.4, but behind a feature flag since 16.6.

Closes #429894 (closed)

Relates to #336070 (closed)

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Before:

| Introduced in GitLab 13.4, 14 days after a merge request gets closed or merged, the merge request head ref is deleted. This means that the merge request isn't available for local checkout from the merge request head ref anymore.

After:

| Since GitLab 16.6, 14 days after a merge request gets closed or merged ...

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Edited by Sjoerd Langkemper

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