Large amount of related merge requests on pipelines pages when merging several times from same branch name

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Summary

When merging several times from the same branch name, you can endup with large amount of "Related Merge Requests" showing up on that branch pipeline pages.

Steps to reproduce

Create several merge requests originating from the same branch. This is common when adopting a gitflow approach.

eg, dev branch being merged every so often into a master one:

Example Project

Here is a screenshot of what we are getting on our dev branch pipelines.

What is the current bug behavior?

Showing large amount of unuseful links to former merge requests

What is the expected correct behavior?

I assume that you should only get the most recent and opened merge request or have a mechanism available in order to stop this functionnality.