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
echo a > a
hg ci -d '0 0' -Ama
hg an a
echo "[ui]" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "strict=True" >> $HGRCPATH
hg an a
hg annotate a
echo % should succeed - up is an alias, not an abbreviation
hg up