rebase: correctly check for empty commit in in-memory mode
The new code has a small overhead in the empty commit case, as a `memctx` object
is always created, but I don’t think it’s justified here to duplicate code
to optimize a relatively unlikely code path.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8732
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