Fix for Gitaly nil encoding issue

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb b/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb
index e75e0500ed8..87b300dcf7e 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ module Gitlab
     end
 
     def self.encode(s)
+      return "" if s.nil?
+
       s.dup.force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client/commit_service.rb b/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client/commit_service.rb
index 36da63fd586..a2b50f2507e 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client/commit_service.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client/commit_service.rb
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ module Gitlab
           repository: @gitaly_repo,
           left_commit_id: from_id,
           right_commit_id: to_id,
-          paths: options.fetch(:paths, []).map { |path| GitalyClient.encode(path) }
+          paths: options.fetch(:paths, []).compact.map { |path| GitalyClient.encode(path) }
         }
       end