Fix for #522: NPE was preventing the MergeView from populating after entering a conflicted state
Created originally on Bitbucket by monotoli (Andy Lee)
Was already merged in Bitbucket before import, marked as merged by the import user
I've been running with this fix for 2 weeks or so and everything seems to work pretty well, although I'm not sure if it is really the correct way to fix the problem or not.