diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
index 0637fdc..1d6b10f 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
 :plain
   $(".mr_source_commit").html("#{commit_to_html(@commit)}");
+  var mrTitle = $('#merge_request_title');
+
+  if(mrTitle.is(":empty")) {
+    mrTitle.val("#{params[:ref].titleize}");
+  }
--
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