Merge branch 'js/t1450-making-it-writable-does-not-need-full-posixperm'

[thirdparty/git.git] / fmt-merge-msg.c

diff --git a/fmt-merge-msg.c b/fmt-merge-msg.c
index 422bd0c055ab8f068a07fbadcef8e7f2e3b15d4c..baca57d5b64c9f30bad08a505ccd7f1a9ba38546 100644 (file)
--- a/fmt-merge-msg.c
+++ b/fmt-merge-msg.c
@@ -650,12 +650,15 @@ int fmt_merge_msg(struct strbuf *in, struct strbuf *out,
 
        memset(&merge_parents, 0, sizeof(merge_parents));
 
-       /* get current branch */
+       /* learn the commit that we merge into and the current branch name */
        current_branch = current_branch_to_free =
                resolve_refdup("HEAD", RESOLVE_REF_READING, &head_oid, NULL);
        if (!current_branch)
                die("No current branch");
-       if (starts_with(current_branch, "refs/heads/"))
+
+       if (opts->into_name)
+               current_branch = opts->into_name;
+       else if (starts_with(current_branch, "refs/heads/"))
                current_branch += 11;
 
        find_merge_parents(&merge_parents, in, &head_oid);