If we search for notes before the MR was merged, we have to load every commit
that was ever part of the MR, or mentioned in a push. In extreme cases, this can
be tens of thousands of commits to load, but we know they can't revert the merge
commit, because they are from before the MR was merged.
In the (rare) case that we don't have a `merged_at` value for the MR, we can
still search all notes.
