Message 264496 - Python tracker
To create a patch accepted by Rietveld, you should clone the Mercurial repository, apply your patch, and then regenerate the diff using Mercurial: Something like: $ cd python_hg_clone $ patch -p1 < ../git_patch.patch $ hg diff > hg_diff.patch To clone: hg clone https://hg.python.org/cpython/