git - How to prevent Gitlab from creating extra merge commit on branch merge

Question

I use GitLab in my project. I'm exploring Merge Requests feature.

1. I created a topic_branch from master.
2. Made a bunch of commits on topic_branch.
3. Pushed topic_branch to remote.
4. Created a merge request on master to pull changes from topic_branch.
5. On accept merge in Gitlab, master pulled all the commits and also created a merge commit which is horrible to see duplication of code.

I should have created a squash of commits on branch and then created merge request. But still master would have two new commits, one from the branch and another one would be merge commit. I'm assuming, if I do this from command line i.e,

1. checkout master
2. merge topic_branch into master
3. commit / push master In this case, there would be only 1 commit on master.

How to achieve this from GitLab ?

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