How can I specify a multiline commit message for mercurial on the command line?
hg commit -m "* add foo\n* fix bar"
does not work. The log shows:
changeset: 13:f2c6526e5911
tag: tip
date: Fri Jan 23 23:22:36 2009 +0100
files: foobar.cpp
description:
* add foo\n*fix bar
Mercurial: multiline commit message on the command line?
Hit enter.
$ hg commit -m "Did some work
> Now I'm done"
One of the things is that only the first line shows up in hg log:
$ hg log
changeset: 0:d2dc019450a2
tag: tip
user: Aaron Maenpaa <[email protected]>
date: Sat Jan 24 07:46:23 2009 -0500
summary: Did some work
... but if you fire up "hg view" you can see that the whole message is there.
Edited to add:
... but hg -v log shows the whole message:
$ hg -v log
changeset: 0:d2dc019450a2
tag: tip
user: Aaron Maenpaa <[email protected]>
date: Sat Jan 24 07:46:23 2009 -0500
files: work
description:
Did some work
Now I'm done
If you're doing it interactively (vs. from a script), just do hg commit without the -m flag. I'm not sure what the behavior is on Linux or Mac, but on Windows it pops up Notepad with a file that you fill out and save for a multiline message.
Here's another way that is more close to what you tried at first:
hg commit -m "$(echo -e 'foo\nbar')"