[PATCH 1 of 2] commit: save commit message so it's not destroyed by rollback

[Martin Geisler]

Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> On 22.11.2009 22:21, Gilles Moris wrote:
>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 07:11:12 pm Greg Ward wrote:
>>> Rationale: if a pretxncommit hook rejects this commit, the
>>> transaction is rolled back and the user's commit message is
>>> irrevocably lost. So save a copy in .hg/message, just in case. Also
>>> handy if the user deliberately rolls back a commit in order to amend
>>> it.
>> 
>> I would also use the .txt suffix for the message filename as Adrian
>> Buehlmann suggested previously, especially if we want to advertise
>> the file presence in patch #2. This will make Windows users life
>> easier.
>
> Huh?
>
> .hg/message is perfect (without .txt)

Not really, IMHO. Without a filename extension, my Emacs sees this as a
random file and wont know that it should enter text-mode.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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