The Travis CI implementation wasn't serializing parent diffs into the

job payload. This sometimes resulted in builds which would wait and

eventually time out as it tried to apply a patch that didn't work

and waited for user input (why patch thinks it's on a tty is beyond me).
This change adds serialization of the parent diff, if necessary. We

don't have any facilities for doing this easily, so it basically

replicates the logic that exists for normal diffs.

Triggered successful Travis CI builds for changes that had parent diffs,

and verified that changes without parent diffs were unaffected.