laravel/framework — pull request #6256 by eduard44 (2014-10-28 16:54:06+00:00)
Title: Fixes broken file upload when submitting a form without selecting a file #6189

This is my attempt at fixing (my first PR) the issue:
[5.0] File upload is broken when submitting a form without selecting a file #6189

Right now I'm overriding Symfony's Request::duplicate function so that it can handle empty file form inputs. Another solution is included in the issue (#6189), which modifies the createFromBase function. Both filter the input array to remove any files that are null.