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

From Windows cmd, do this command for a multiline commit.

hg commit -l con

This allows you to enter a multiple line commit message straight from the command line. To end your message, hit Enter, and on a line by itself hit Ctrl + Z and Enter again.

Why? The -l option to hg commit says to read the commit message from a file, and con specifies that the file is actually the console.