merge: use skip_prefix()

Get rid of a magic string length constant by using skip_prefix() instead
of starts_with().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: rscharfe

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