METRON-1868 metron-committer-common incorrectly checking REPO_NAME (JonZeolla via jonzeolla) closes apache/metron#1260
diff --git a/dev-utilities/committer-utils/metron-committer-common b/dev-utilities/committer-utils/metron-committer-common
index 22e19a2..0f6c06a 100644
--- a/dev-utilities/committer-utils/metron-committer-common
+++ b/dev-utilities/committer-utils/metron-committer-common
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 APACHE_NAME=
 APACHE_EMAIL=
 GITHUB_NAME=
+CHOSEN_REPO=
 
 #
 # Initialize the variables from the default configuration file, if it exists
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@
     if [ ! -d "$WORK" ]; then
 
         REPO_NAME="metron"
-        if [ -z $1 ]; then
+        if [ -n $1 ]; then
             REPO_NAME=$1
         fi
 
@@ -354,4 +355,4 @@
     echo "    cd $WORK"
     echo "    git push upstream $BASE_BRANCH"
     echo ""
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}