extdiff: refactor logic which does diff of patches
The current extdiff code is hard to understand on first look. Took me few hours
to grasp the code. Before adding more things, decided to do some refactoring.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8686
#require docutils gettext
$ $TESTDIR/check-gendoc it
checking for parse errors