> Don't know exactly how it's implemented, but I would guess it's using
> "hg incoming --patch" or similar, which would handle this transparently;
> the newer revisions at hg.python.org would just be ignored in generating
> the diff.

That doesn't work exactly: hg incoming --patch could generate multiple
patches for the same file. The button tries to combine them into a
single patch per file (which turns out to be difficult).

Regards,
Martin
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