diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/MergeCommand.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/MergeCommand.java
index ae13c9640..9e31c47c3 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/MergeCommand.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/api/MergeCommand.java
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ public MergeResult call() throws NoHeadException,
 					ResolveMerger resolveMerger = (ResolveMerger) merger;
 					resolveMerger.setCommitNames(new String[] {
 							"BASE", "HEAD", ref.getName() });
-					resolveMerger.setWorkingTreeIt(new FileTreeIterator(repo));
+					resolveMerger.setWorkingTreeIterator(new FileTreeIterator(repo));
 					noProblems = merger.merge(headCommit, srcCommit);
 					lowLevelResults = resolveMerger
 							.getMergeResults();
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java
index ecec033fc..a8ab433fb 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/merge/ResolveMerger.java
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ public enum MergeFailureReason {
 
 	private DirCache dircache;
 
-	private WorkingTreeIterator workingTreeIt;
+	private WorkingTreeIterator workingTreeIterator;
 
 
 	/**
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ protected boolean mergeImpl() throws IOException {
 			tw.addTree(sourceTrees[0]);
 			tw.addTree(sourceTrees[1]);
 			tw.addTree(buildIt);
-			if (workingTreeIt != null)
-				tw.addTree(workingTreeIt);
+			if (workingTreeIterator != null)
+				tw.addTree(workingTreeIterator);
 
 			while (tw.next()) {
 				if (!processEntry(
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ protected boolean mergeImpl() throws IOException {
 						tw.getTree(T_OURS, CanonicalTreeParser.class),
 						tw.getTree(T_THEIRS, CanonicalTreeParser.class),
 						tw.getTree(T_INDEX, DirCacheBuildIterator.class),
-						(workingTreeIt == null) ? null : tw.getTree(T_FILE, WorkingTreeIterator.class))) {
+						(workingTreeIterator == null) ? null : tw.getTree(T_FILE, WorkingTreeIterator.class))) {
 					cleanUp();
 					return false;
 				}
@@ -612,10 +612,10 @@ public void setDirCache(DirCache dc) {
 	 * TODO: enhance WorkingTreeIterator to support write operations. Then this
 	 * merger will be able to merge with a different working tree abstraction.
 	 *
-	 * @param workingTreeIt
+	 * @param workingTreeIterator
 	 *            the workingTreeIt to set
 	 */
-	public void setWorkingTreeIt(WorkingTreeIterator workingTreeIt) {
-		this.workingTreeIt = workingTreeIt;
+	public void setWorkingTreeIterator(WorkingTreeIterator workingTreeIterator) {
+		this.workingTreeIterator = workingTreeIterator;
 	}
 }