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
cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
[encode]
*.gz = gunzip
[decode]
*.gz = gzip
EOF
echo "this is a test" | gzip > a.gz
hg add a.gz
hg ci -m "test" -d "1000000 0"
echo %% no changes
hg status
touch a.gz
echo %% no changes
hg status
echo %% uncompressed contents in repo
hg debugdata .hg/store/data/a.gz.d 0
echo %% uncompress our working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz
rm a.gz
hg co
echo %% uncompress our new working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz