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

I know, there is already a solution for linux users, but I needed another solution for windows command line, so I was looking for it...

And I found one: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2011-November/040855.html

hg commit -l filename.txt

I hope, it's useful for someone out there ,)

[EDIT] oO - it has already been added to the help

-l --logfile FILE read commit message from file