From 7a141e39c18e91847a3b888821e5785ab02dc0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:38:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow blob data to be nil

---
 lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb b/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb
index 6ce4799e..ffe1e278 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb
+++ b/lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ module Linguist
     def shebang_script
       return if !text? || large?
 
-      if (match = data.match(/(.+)\n?/)) && (bang = match[0]) =~ /^#!/
+      if data && (match = data.match(/(.+)\n?/)) && (bang = match[0]) =~ /^#!/
         bang.sub!(/^#! /, '#!')
         tokens = bang.split(' ')
         pieces = tokens.first.split('/')