From a20110974d781e972831fa8a52a0839a613121f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James <james@trbl.design>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 11:07:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: ensures non populated relationships still retain IDs

---
 src/fields/relationshipPopulationPromise.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/fields/relationshipPopulationPromise.ts b/src/fields/relationshipPopulationPromise.ts
index 0cf39bd1e4c..5a9d1fc68c2 100644
--- a/src/fields/relationshipPopulationPromise.ts
+++ b/src/fields/relationshipPopulationPromise.ts
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ const populate = async ({
       idString = idString.toString();
     }
 
-    let populatedRelationship = null;
+    let populatedRelationship;
 
     if (depth && currentDepth <= depth) {
       populatedRelationship = await payload.operations.collections.findByID({