I branched from develop while working on a project, and when I made a merge request, Gitlab is showing all the commits on branch develop, whereas I only made two commits on the branch itself. It is the same time even when I try from an entirely new branch or branch from master.
The person who is supposed to merge it has refused saying it can mess up the codebase. What can I do to resolve this?
You need to check "squash commits when merge request is accepted". Then, your branch will be merged with only one commit, keeping the branch tree clean.