RFC: adding a way to store a draft commit message

[Jason Orendorff]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote:
> Several SCM systems I've used (including a system we're in the process
> of replacing with mercurial) have provided a facility which stores a
> pending commit message/change comment prior to commit/checkin.
>
> Mercurial doesn't have this.  It turned out to be really simple to
> prototype as an extension, though in the long run it would be less
> intrusive to just build it in to the base code.

Another way to do this is to use Mercurial Queues.  "hg qrefresh -e"
lets you edit the commit message of the current patch.

-j