From 77f5472a53546cfc38bf9520ee36229f67d49069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Kaufman <evan.kaufman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:55:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Declare empty diff dict ahead of time (#4646)

Fixes #4634
---
 lib/ansible/modules/files/replace.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/files/replace.py b/lib/ansible/modules/files/replace.py
index 7d26163c582..97103e3b4ff 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/replace.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/replace.py
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ def main():
 
     params = module.params
     dest = os.path.expanduser(params['dest'])
+    diff = dict()
 
     if os.path.isdir(dest):
         module.fail_json(rc=256, msg='Destination %s is a directory !' % dest)