git-gui: Avoid an infinite rescan loop in handle_empty_diff.

If the index update machinery and git diff happen to disagree
on whether a particular file is modified, it may cause git-gui
to enter an infinite index rescan loop, where an empty diff
starts a rescan, which finds the same set of files modified,
and tries to display the diff for the first one, which happens
to be the empty one. A current example of a possible disagreement
point is the autocrlf filter.

This patch breaks the loop by using a global counter to track
the auto-rescans. The variable is reset whenever a non-empty
diff is displayed.

Another suggested approach, which is based on giving the
--exit-code argument to git diff, cannot be used, because
diff-files seems to trust the timestamps in the index, and
returns a non-zero code even if the file is actually
unchanged, which essentially defeats the purpose of the
auto-rescan logic.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

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