manifestdict: drop empty-string argument when creating empty manifest
manifestdict() creates an empty manifestdict, so let's consistently
use that instead of explicitly parsing an empty string (which does
result in an empty manifest).
Test issue2761
$ hg init
$ touch to-be-deleted
$ hg add
adding to-be-deleted
$ hg ci -m first
$ echo a > to-be-deleted
$ hg ci -m second
$ rm to-be-deleted
$ hg diff -r 0
Same issue, different code path
$ hg up -C
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg add
adding does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg ci -m third
$ rm does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg diff -r 1