Does Mercurial support empty commit messages?

Question

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

Answer 1

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"

If you don't like qcommit then you can alias to commit instead i.e.

[alias]
commit = commit -m "quick commit - no message"

this won't help you with TortoiseHG however which presumebly validates its entry fields before passing data to mercurial iteslf

Answer 2

You can use just a space, but I'd really discourage it:

hg commit -m " "