From 5054057acdcbf805eb24fc01521728c9bcc7bdd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Bevan <tom.bevan@r3labs.io>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:21:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] assign an empty type when patch value is nil

---
 change_value.go | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/change_value.go b/change_value.go
index 7d7ca08..4d721e9 100644
--- a/change_value.go
+++ b/change_value.go
@@ -123,7 +123,12 @@ func (c *ChangeValue) Set(value reflect.Value, convertCompatibleTypes bool) {
 			}
 			c.target.Set(value.Convert(c.target.Type()))
 		} else {
-			c.target.Set(value)
+			if value.IsValid() {
+				c.target.Set(value)
+			} else {
+				t := c.target.Elem()
+				t.Set(reflect.Zero(t.Type()))
+			}
 		}
 		c.SetFlag(FlagApplied)
 	}

From 5f0fcde00ed846c3c1fe0b31335682743d9729a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Bevan <tom.bevan@r3labs.io>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:30:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix travis-ci badges

---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d0a549..ef16bc5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Diff [![PkgGoDev](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/r3labs/diff)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/r3labs/diff) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/r3labs/diff)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/r3labs/diff) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/r3labs/diff.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/r3labs/diff)
+# Diff [![PkgGoDev](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/r3labs/diff)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/r3labs/diff) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/r3labs/diff)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/r3labs/diff) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/r3labs/diff.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/r3labs/diff)
 
 A library for diffing golang structures and values.