Adding empty files should display a message in merge request diffs

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Summary

If an empty file is added, the merge request only displays the file header.

Steps to reproduce

• create an empty file
• create a merge request

What is the current behavior?

only file header is displayed:

What is the improved behavior?

A message "File is empty" is shown below the header. This is similar to how "Contains only whitespace changes" is handled.