<!--IssueSummary start--> <details> <summary> Everyone can contribute. [Help move this issue forward](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/contributor-success/community-contributors-workflows/#contributor-links) while earning points, leveling up and collecting rewards. </summary> - [Close this issue](https://contributors.gitlab.com/manage-issue?action=close&projectId=278964&issueIid=456426) </details> <!--IssueSummary end--> As discussed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/436061#note_1861719243, it seems that the merge state change system notes sometimes display `merged manually` instead of linking to the related MR that triggered the merge. **It's displayed like this:**  **When it should be displayed like this:**  I believe it's due to the execution timing of the `UpdateMergeRequestsWorker` which gets triggered by the initial merge commit [here](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/2d411f610cf2047439fb13c7c045f3b400de5fa5/app/services/merge_requests/merge_service.rb#L33). It won't find the MR that has just been merged as it hasn't been marked as merged yet. I believe that background job sometimes gets executed earlier than the execution of `MergeRequests::PostMergeService` as we commit first and process the post merge service. I'm not sure how often this happens, but I noticed this happening a couple of times. I suppose it depends on the workload of the background workers. I think it'd be tricky to fix this timing issue as we need to make sure the git commit succeeds first before we mark them as merged. It'd be best if we can do that somehow though. One way to work around this timing issue would be to update the `merged manually` to include link to the project commit where we list MRs that include the commit as well. It'd be similar to the commit link within the merge details that links to something like https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commit/95a5e7dc1134236c1844e1f26b4711e035743bab. At least, that provides a way to see all MRs that contains the commit. That link already exists in the merge details widget like below, but maybe it's helpful to link to that instead of saying `merged manually` incorrectly occasionally?  MRs that include this commit will be listed like this so it could be more helpful.