Bug report

Bug summary

When no data is plotted, a logit scale ignores calls to set_{x/y}lim and sticks to the default(?) of [1e-7, 1-1e-7]

edit: fixed, but see follow up at #14743 (comment).

Code for reproduction

gca().set(yscale="logit", ylim=(.9, .999))  # or (.001, .1), or etc.

Actual outcome

This image is made with the formatter provided by #14512 for legibility (the formatter before that PR is impossible to read), but that doesn't change the axes limits.

Expected outcome

limits respecting the set ylims.
Note that adding a call to e.g. plot(<any values>) (within or without the given limits) fixes the issue.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: linux
• Matplotlib version: 3.1 or master, perhaps earlier?
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): any
• Python version: 3.7
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries: