merge: use skip_prefix()

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 703827f00668ca0df807f35e300f0927d00075cd..d9db0baaf3c9368a62363fb9c3f4e550e71ce5e3 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -1118,8 +1118,8 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
         * current branch.
         */
        branch = branch_to_free = resolve_refdup("HEAD", 0, head_oid.hash, NULL);
-       if (branch && starts_with(branch, "refs/heads/"))
-               branch += 11;
+       if (branch)
+               skip_prefix(branch, "refs/heads/", &branch);
        if (!branch || is_null_oid(&head_oid))
                head_commit = NULL;
        else