[Feature flag] Enable Geo Merge Request Diff replication
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## What
Remove the `:geo_merge_request_diff_replication` feature flag ...
## Owners
- Team: ~"group::geo"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: `#g_geo`
- Best individual to reach out to: `@toon`
## Expectations
### What are we expecting to happen?
### What might happen if this goes wrong?
### What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
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## Beta groups/projects
If applicable, any groups/projects that are happy to have this feature turned on early. Some organizations may wish to test big changes they are interested in with a small subset of users ahead of time for example.
- `gitlab-org/gitlab` project
- `gitlab-org`/`gitlab-com` groups
- ...
## Roll Out Steps
- [ ] Enable on staging
- [ ] Test on staging
- [x] Test in GCP (e.g. with instances spun up with ansible-gitlab-geo)
- [x] Ensure that documentation has been updated
- [ ] Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour
- [ ] Coordinate a time to enable the flag with `#production` and `#g_delivery` on slack.
- [ ] Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com
- [ ] Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in `#production`
- [ ] Cross post chatops slack command to `#support_gitlab-com` ([more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/controls.html#where-to-run-commands)) and in your team channel
- [ ] Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled
- [x] Remove feature flag and add changelog entry
- [ ] After the flag removal is deployed, [clean up the feature flag](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/controls.html#cleaning-up) by running chatops command in `#production` channel
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