[scm-migration-dev] Question about "push comments" (resubmitted)

[Jim Marks - Sun Microsystems]

> Hi,
>
> I have been doing putbacks to Solars ON-gate since the early 90s, so I 
> am very
> used to the Teamware way of doing things.  I have read all the 
> Mercurial docs
> (that I could find), but I'm still uncertain about the correct way to 
> enter the
> comments which will be recorded with my push and which we are used to 
> seeing
> in the gate notification mail inside Sun.
>
> Is the following an acceptable approach?
>
> Do as many "commits" as you like in your repository clone, with whatever
> comments are useful to you.  These are temporary.
>
> Then, when it's time to push (assuming hg pbchk is clean and
> RTI is approved), do a final 'hg recommit' and enter the *real*
> comments.  Something like "hg recommit -l  ~/comments.txt"
>
> where ~/comments.txt contains, for example,
>
> ---
> FWARC 2008/229 Virtual IO DR Domain Service
> 6651197 Add support for LDoms Virtual I/O Dynamic Reconfiguration (VIO 
> DR)
> ---
>
> Another question: From what I have been able to tell from experiment, 
> a commit message
> (or comment) applies to all the files which are currently uncommited 
> and not any
> individual file.  If I'm fixing several bugs in a changeset, have I 
> lost the ability to enter
> file-specific comments?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>