Merge pull request #901 from franzliedke/patch-18

Ignore NULL values when determining whether a model object is dirty

laravel/database/eloquent/model.php

@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ abstract class Model {
 
 		foreach ($this->attributes as $key => $value)
 		{
-			if ( ! isset($this->original[$key]) or $value !== $this->original[$key])
+			if ( ! array_key_exists($key, $this->original) or $value !== $this->original[$key])
 			{
 				$dirty[$key] = $value;
 			}