We have 2 branches: develop and master.

I made several merges develop to master with squash.
There were 75 original commits in develop,
and I merged 4 times into master.
I did this without using merge request in Gitlab,
just plain git.

And everything was ok.

Now however there’s a problem, if I’m trying to
use merge request in Gitlab (for new changes),
Gitlab shows all the 75 old commits when comparing branches.

I’m not sure what to do. If I just proceed with merge request,
will it work ?
What will be the result ?

Anyway seeing 75 old commits is annoying,
I’d like to see only the new changes (anything that wasn’t merged into master).

Any help will be appreciated