diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index d88e45c0fc3..0333b1dc50f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
 v 7.9.0 (unreleased)
+  - Fix mass SQL statements on initial push (Hannes Rosenögger)
   - Add tag push notifications and normalize HipChat and Slack messages to be consistent (Stan Hu)
   - Add comment notification events to HipChat and Slack services (Stan Hu)
   - Add issue and merge request events to HipChat and Slack services (Stan Hu)
diff --git a/app/services/git_push_service.rb b/app/services/git_push_service.rb
index 13def127763..4e1afea6d50 100644
--- a/app/services/git_push_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/git_push_service.rb
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ class GitPushService
           # as a heuristic. This may include more commits than are actually pushed, but
           # that shouldn't matter because we check for existing cross-references later.
           @push_commits = project.repository.commits_between(project.default_branch, newrev)
+
+          # don't process commits for the initial push to the default branch
+          process_commit_messages(ref)
         end
-        process_commit_messages(ref)
       elsif push_to_existing_branch?(ref, oldrev)
         # Collect data for this git push
         @push_commits = project.repository.commits_between(oldrev, newrev)
diff --git a/app/views/projects/_bitbucket_import_modal.html.haml b/app/views/projects/_bitbucket_import_modal.html.haml
index 5c52f91927d..07d4d602769 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/_bitbucket_import_modal.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/_bitbucket_import_modal.html.haml
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@
           you need to
         - else
           your GitLab administrator needs to
-        == #{link_to 'setup OAuth integration', 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/integration/butbucket.md'}.
\ No newline at end of file
+        == #{link_to 'setup OAuth integration', 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/integration/bitbucket.md'}.
diff --git a/spec/services/git_push_service_spec.rb b/spec/services/git_push_service_spec.rb
index e264072b573..1b1e3ca5f8b 100644
--- a/spec/services/git_push_service_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/services/git_push_service_spec.rb
@@ -197,15 +197,6 @@ describe GitPushService do
 
       service.execute(project, user, @blankrev, @newrev, 'refs/heads/other')
     end
-
-    it "finds references in the first push to a default branch" do
-      allow(project.repository).to receive(:commits_between).with(@blankrev, @newrev).and_return([])
-      allow(project.repository).to receive(:commits).with(@newrev).and_return([commit])
-
-      expect(Note).to receive(:create_cross_reference_note).with(issue, commit, commit_author, project)
-
-      service.execute(project, user, @blankrev, @newrev, 'refs/heads/master')
-    end
   end
 
   describe "closing issues from pushed commits" do