Callers assume knife.hints is more hash-like than mixlib-config provides

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/config.rb b/lib/chef/config.rb
index 2aabc804bf..4e7c5b11f0 100644
--- a/lib/chef/config.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/config.rb
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ class Chef
       default :host_key_verify, nil
       default :forward_agent, nil
       default :sort_status_reverse, nil
-      config_context :hints
+      default :hints, {}
     end
 
     # Those lists of regular expressions define what chef considers a