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.
% file replaced with directory
adding a
% should fail - would corrupt dirstate
abort: file named 'a' already in dirstate
% directory replaced with file
adding a/a
% should fail - would corrupt dirstate
abort: directory named 'a' already in dirstate
% directory replaced with file
adding b/c/d
% should fail - would corrupt dirstate
abort: directory named 'b' already in dirstate