mercurial/help/phases.txt

--- a/mercurial/help/phases.txt	Tue Dec 22 21:38:06 2015 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/help/phases.txt	Tue Dec 22 20:10:22 2015 +0000
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@
 Phases can also be manually manipulated with the :hg:`phase` command
 if needed. See :hg:`help -v phase` for examples.
 
+To make yours commits secret by default, put this in your
+configuration file::
+
+  [phases]
+  new-commit = secret
+
 Phases and servers
 ==================