Additional info when commiting

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:33:52PM +0530, dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Dec 5, 2007 3:51 PM,  <pellegrini at ill.fr> wrote:
> (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.
> 
> If you feel typing longer messages in the command line is a problem (I
> agree), do not use the '-m' option. It will open up an editor for you
> to type in the long messages. I do that when I want to add a lot more
> detail than that can be typed comfortably on the prompt with
> formatting.

There's also the -l option to read a commit message from a file.

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