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

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 23.11.2009 13:02, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
> 
>> On 23.11.2009 10:11, Martin Geisler wrote:
>>>> It's probably best if Matt just picks a name and ends this discussion.
>>> I don't think we should not channel every little decision through
>>> Matt, I'm sure he has better things to do :-)
>> I'm not entirely sure that Matt would prefer having a .txt suffix,
>> since it would be clearly a deviation from current naming standards
>> inside .hg.
>>
>> It's surprising though to read that you see the current naming
>> of the other files inside .hg as broken.
> 
> Well, broken is too strong... all I wanted to say is that it would not
> have hurt anybody if we had added '.ini' or '.txt' from the beginning.
> 
> The question is whether we should continue this style for new files too.
> I can definitely see that it's nice to keep things consistent, but it's
> also nice to make things ever so slightly easier.
> 
> But perhaps it doesn't matter here -- if people use .hg/message as
> 
>   hg commit -l .hg/message
> 

...or even simpler just use

hg ci

and have the message extension [1] enabled in their ~/.hgrc, which
will automatically preload .hg/message into their editor.

[1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MessageExtension