diff --git a/routers/web/repo/commit.go b/routers/web/repo/commit.go
index 718454e063..8fa299710c 100644
--- a/routers/web/repo/commit.go
+++ b/routers/web/repo/commit.go
@@ -408,12 +408,6 @@ func Diff(ctx *context.Context) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	ctx.Data["BranchName"], err = commit.GetBranchName()
-	if err != nil {
-		ctx.ServerError("commit.GetBranchName", err)
-		return
-	}
-
 	ctx.HTML(http.StatusOK, tplCommitPage)
 }
 
diff --git a/templates/repo/commit_page.tmpl b/templates/repo/commit_page.tmpl
index c37fb46975..18c9cf18f8 100644
--- a/templates/repo/commit_page.tmpl
+++ b/templates/repo/commit_page.tmpl
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@
 												"branchForm" "branch-dropdown-form"
 												"branchURLPrefix" (printf "%s/_cherrypick/%s/" $.RepoLink .CommitID) "branchURLSuffix" ""
 												"setAction" true "submitForm" true}}
-											<form method="get" action="{{$.RepoLink}}/_cherrypick/{{.CommitID}}/{{if $.BranchName}}{{PathEscapeSegments $.BranchName}}{{else}}{{PathEscapeSegments $.Repository.DefaultBranch}}{{end}}" id="branch-dropdown-form">
-												<input type="hidden" name="ref" value="{{if $.BranchName}}{{$.BranchName}}{{else}}{{$.Repository.DefaultBranch}}{{end}}">
+											<form method="get" action="{{$.RepoLink}}/_cherrypick/{{.CommitID}}/{{PathEscapeSegments $.Repository.DefaultBranch}}" id="branch-dropdown-form">
+												<input type="hidden" name="ref" value="{{$.Repository.DefaultBranch}}">
 												<input type="hidden" name="refType" value="branch">
 												<input type="hidden" id="cherry-pick-type" name="cherry-pick-type"><br>
 												<button type="submit" id="cherry-pick-submit" class="ui primary button"></button>