Additional info when commiting

[Mathieu Clabaut]

On Dec 5, 2007 11:21 AM, <pellegrini at ill.fr> wrote:

> I just started with Mercurial a few days ago. I am sorry if that question
> has already been posted but I did not find it on the archive.
>
> I would like to know if there is an option for adding supplementary
> information when commiting. I use commit -m "blabla" to add a short
> message but how to do when more details are needed (files that has been
> touched, details about the changes ...). I guess all of this could be
> embedded in -m option but it would not be very clean.

Hello,

 commit without -m option will launch an editor (set your EDITOR environment
variable accordingly) allowing you to type in  along commit message.
 Usually you will want to put a short summary on the first line, and a
detailed log on the following one.
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