From a525dbb2d44b0a5aa307f222cbe7920065cc376f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Carrillo <stringparser@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:27:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [[FIX]] default to empty string in src/cli.js loadIgnores

Related to https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1153
---
 src/cli.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/cli.js b/src/cli.js
index 6f06c0c110..9575d4c0f2 100644
--- a/src/cli.js
+++ b/src/cli.js
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ function findFile(name, cwd) {
  * @return {array} a list of files to ignore.
  */
 function loadIgnores(params) {
-  var file = findFile(params.excludePath || ".jshintignore", params.cwd);
+  var file = findFile(params.excludePath || ".jshintignore", params.cwd) || '';
 
   if (!file && !params.exclude) {
     return [];