The old practice of storing the empty string in this member for the main
repository was a holdover from before
00eebe3 (refs: create a base class
"ref_store" for files_ref_store, 2016-09-04), when the submodule was
stored in a flex array at the end of `struct files_ref_store`. Storing
NULL for this case is more idiomatic and a tiny bit less code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>