Mercurial: multiline commit message on the command line?

Question

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

Answer 1

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 
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 
date:        Sat Jan 24 07:46:23 2009 -0500
files:       work
description:
Did some work
Now I'm done