Is there a way to configure Mercurial to allow for empty commit messages? If you try hg commit through the CLI without entering a commit message, the commit is canceled with: abort: empty commit message.
Now, I know that committing without a message is usually considered bad form, but does Mercurial allow it at all?
You can use just a space, but I'd really discourage it:
hg commit -m " "
If the problem is that you don't want to enter the -m "blah" part you can always set up an alias. e.g. in hgrc
[alias]
qcommit = commit -m "quick commit - no message"
I don't want to type qcommit, I just want not to enter a message. I am also a single user on a project. Every day I code at work, and then code at home. Twice a day I have to think up a daft message for my future self.
The qcommit idea at least shows how easily we stupid users can avoid typing a stupid log message. Perhaps the mercurial developers should craftily ban such aliases. Well then we'll use the shell. C'mon, you can force a message from us by default, but let's end the games there.