Store merge request ref_fetched status in the database

Closes #34052

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/app/models/merge_request.rb b/app/models/merge_request.rb
index f581a25f093..c099d731082 100644
--- a/app/models/merge_request.rb
+++ b/app/models/merge_request.rb
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ class MergeRequest < ActiveRecord::Base
       "refs/heads/#{source_branch}",
       ref_path
     )
+    update_column(:ref_fetched, true)
   end
 
   def ref_path
@@ -778,7 +779,13 @@ class MergeRequest < ActiveRecord::Base
   end
 
   def ref_fetched?
-    project.repository.ref_exists?(ref_path)
+    super ||
+      begin
+        computed_value = project.repository.ref_exists?(ref_path)
+        update_column(:ref_fetched, true) if computed_value
+
+        computed_value
+      end
   end
 
   def ensure_ref_fetched