fix($location): return '/' for root path in hashbang mode

Before this change, on the root of the application, $location.path() would return
the empty string. Following this change, it will always return a root of '/'.

Closes #5650
Closes #5712

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ng/location.js b/src/ng/location.js
index 0a47445f..d193b1ca 100644
--- a/src/ng/location.js
+++ b/src/ng/location.js
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ function LocationHashbangUrl(appBase, hashPrefix) {
 
     this.$$compose();
 
+    if (!this.$$path) {
+      this.$$path = '/';
+    }
+
     /*
      * In Windows, on an anchor node on documents loaded from
      * the filesystem, the browser will return a pathname