Extension Name
This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.
Author: Georg Brandl
Download site: http://hg.pocoo.org/hgchangelog (needs hg 1.1+)
Overview
This simple extension wraps the commit command to look if there is a change in the project's changelog. If there is, it is used as the default for the commit message.
Note that it is a quick hack -- I'm happy with any suggestion or bug report...
Configuration
Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding following lines (replace "CHANGES" by the name of your changelog):
[extensions] hgchangelog = /path/to/hgchangelog.py [changelog] filename = CHANGES