diff --git a/src/ref/ArcanistRefView.php b/src/ref/ArcanistRefView.php
index bb166aca..e99953c2 100644
--- a/src/ref/ArcanistRefView.php
+++ b/src/ref/ArcanistRefView.php
@@ -1,146 +1,151 @@
 <?php
 
 final class ArcanistRefView
   extends Phobject
   implements
     ArcanistTerminalStringInterface {
 
   private $objectName;
   private $title;
   private $ref;
   private $uri;
   private $lines = array();
   private $children = array();
 
   public function setRef(ArcanistRef $ref) {
     $this->ref = $ref;
     return $this;
   }
 
   public function getRef() {
     return $this->ref;
   }
 
   public function setObjectName($object_name) {
     $this->objectName = $object_name;
     return $this;
   }
 
   public function getObjectName() {
     return $this->objectName;
   }
 
   public function setTitle($title) {
     $this->title = $title;
     return $this;
   }
 
   public function getTitle() {
     return $this->title;
   }
 
   public function setURI($uri) {
     $this->uri = $uri;
     return $this;
   }
 
   public function getURI() {
     return $this->uri;
   }
 
   public function addChild(ArcanistRefView $view) {
     $this->children[] = $view;
     return $this;
   }
 
   private function getChildren() {
     return $this->children;
   }
 
   public function appendLine($line) {
     $this->lines[] = $line;
     return $this;
   }
 
   public function newTerminalString() {
     return $this->newLines(0);
   }
 
   private function newLines($indent) {
     $ref = $this->getRef();
 
     $object_name = $this->getObjectName();
     $title = $this->getTitle();
 
+    // Our goal here is to work with strings, defaults or not
+    if ($title === null) {
+      $title = '';
+    }
+
     if ($object_name !== null) {
       $reserve_width = phutil_utf8_console_strlen($object_name) + 1;
     } else {
       $reserve_width = 0;
     }
 
     if ($indent) {
       $indent_text = str_repeat('  ', $indent);
     } else {
       $indent_text = '';
     }
     $indent_width = strlen($indent_text);
 
     $marker_width = 6;
     $display_width = phutil_console_get_terminal_width();
 
     $usable_width = ($display_width - $marker_width - $reserve_width);
     $usable_width = ($usable_width - $indent_width);
 
     // If the terminal is extremely narrow, don't degrade so much that the
     // output is completely unusable.
     $usable_width = max($usable_width, 16);
 
     // TODO: This should truncate based on console display width, not
     // glyphs, but there's currently no "setMaximumConsoleCharacterWidth()".
 
     $title = id(new PhutilUTF8StringTruncator())
       ->setMaximumGlyphs($usable_width)
       ->truncateString($title);
 
     if ($object_name !== null) {
       if (strlen($title)) {
         $display_text = tsprintf('**%s** %s', $object_name, $title);
       } else {
         $display_text = tsprintf('**%s**', $object_name);
       }
     } else {
       $display_text = $title;
     }
 
     $output = array();
 
     $output[] =  tsprintf(
       "<bg:cyan>**  *  **</bg> %s%s\n",
       $indent_text,
       $display_text);
 
     $uri = $this->getURI();
     if ($uri !== null) {
       $output[] = tsprintf(
         "<bg:cyan>** :// **</bg>   %s__%s__\n",
         $indent_text,
         $uri);
     }
 
     foreach ($this->lines as $line) {
       $output[] = tsprintf(
         "        %s%s\n",
         $indent_text,
         $line);
     }
 
     foreach ($this->getChildren() as $child) {
       foreach ($child->newLines($indent + 1) as $line) {
         $output[] = $line;
       }
     }
 
     return $output;
   }
 
 }