Fix error when trying to authenticate user on repo with size check enabled

What does this MR do?

Fix an error when we were trying to authenticate the author of the push (oldrev and newrev are empty) and the repo was with size check enabled.

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Why was this MR needed?

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

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• Documentation created/updated
• API support added
• Tests added for this feature/bug
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  • Has been reviewed by a Backend maintainer
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• If you have multiple commits, please combine them into a few logically organized commits by squashing them
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• End-to-end tests pass (package-and-qa manual pipeline job)

What are the relevant issue numbers?

Closes gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#50118