Assign minimal metadata to metadata objects in protocol.py

Some nodes will never have metadata, particularly in the case of grafted
paths. So a default blank metadata needs to be sent to keep the protocol
synchronized.
Modify metadata to support storing the git file mode.

In the advent that a VFS node has no metadata, it would be nice not to
break the normal metadata features. This patch adds a new tag _rec_vfs
which stores the git file mode which the VFS falls back on.

This tag will normally never be used unless explicitely enabled, so
there is no overhead.
Add tprotocol.py for protocol specific tests.