Store empty (default) branch in branch cache, too.
Operations on this branch don't work otherwise.
Reading branches.cache had to be adjusted to allow an empty label.
Adjusted reading of the cache tip for symmetry, no functional change here.
#!/bin/sh
hg init a
cd a
touch empty1
hg add empty1
hg commit -m 'add empty1' -d '1000000 0'
touch empty2
hg add empty2
hg commit -m 'add empty2' -d '1000000 0'
hg up -C 0
touch empty3
hg add empty3
hg commit -m 'add empty3' -d '1000000 0'
hg heads
hg merge 1
# before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
# empty file that came from rev 1.
hg status
hg commit -m merge -d '1000000 0'
hg manifest --debug tip