localrepo.status: ignore empty symlink placeholders A symlink's target should never be empty in normal use. Solaris and some BSDs do allow empty symlinks to be created (with varying semantics on dereference), but a symlink placeholder that started off as empty is either - going to be empty, in which case ignoring it is fine, since it's unchanged, or - going to not be empty, in which case this check is irrelevant.