diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
index 8372afa61b53b4cb5eb1de3615f725ec2b48cf93..9210798f39c051f4fff1f98910bf68f3147e817d 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_from.js.haml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 :plain
   $(".mr_source_commit").html("#{commit_to_html(@commit, @source_project, false)}");
+  $('.js-timeago').timeago()
diff --git a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml
index f7ede0ded53d42ce7b1a801ec182fd9e84f6c296..32fe2d535f319ff7bac1077fcf7fbd22c85bace4 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/merge_requests/branch_to.js.haml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 :plain
   $(".mr_target_commit").html("#{commit_to_html(@commit, @target_project, false)}");
+  $('.js-timeago').timeago()