diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 459daef951..c71590bf27 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Oct 12 16:06:20 2012  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* tool/merger.rb: now can merge revision(s) without --ticket again.
+
 Fri Oct 12 14:10:41 2012  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/mkmf.rb (dir_config, init_mkmf): use configured libdir value as
diff --git a/tool/merger.rb b/tool/merger.rb
index b7ceb86df3..d3bc0e9edc 100755
--- a/tool/merger.rb
+++ b/tool/merger.rb
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ else
   if /--ticket=(.*)/ =~ ARGV[0]
     tickets = $1.split(/,/).map{|num| " [Backport ##{num}]"}
     ARGV.shift
+  else
+    tickets = []
   end
 
   q = $repos + (ARGV[1] || default_merge_branch)