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narrow: fix commits of empty files

The problem is that when committing a new file with empty contents (or
in general empty file with filelog p1 = -1), hg commit with narrow
doesn't create a filelog revision at all, which causes failures in
further commands.

The problem seems to be that:
- hg thinks that instead of creating a new filelog revision, it can
  use the filelog's p1 (the nullrev)
- because it thinks the file contents is the same in that revision and
  in p1
- because `narrowfilelog.cmp(nullrev, b'')` is True (unlike with
  `filelog.cmp`)

It's not clear to me which `cmp` behaves better. But I think it makes
sense to change the commit code to not to "reuse" the null rev when
adding an empty file with filelog p1 == filelog p2 == -1. This is
consistent with never writing the null rev in the manifest, which `hg
verify` claims is an invariant:

```
inside/c@4: manifest refers to unknown revision 000000000000
```

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11400

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
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