New Message Extension

[Yann E. MORIN]

Adrian,
All,

On Thursday 03 September 2009 14:46:08 Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MessageExtension
> It allows to preset the commit message (stored in .hg/message), which
> is then preloaded into the editor on 'hg ci'.
> Note that 'hg ci' does not change .hg/message, so rollback and
> recommit is no problem.
> The idea is that the user can note in advance what he is doing.
> Might also be helpful when working with lots of clones.

How is it different from:
  vi message.txt
  *hack* *hack*
  vi message.txt (write some updated comments)
  *hack* *hack*
  vi message.txt (finish the comments)
  hg ci --logfile message.txt

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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