commit: --edit/-e to force edit of otherwise-supplied commit message
The --edit/-e option for the 'commit' command forces editor, even when a
commit message has been provided already by other means, such as by the -m or
-l options.
Test encode/decode filters
$ hg init
$ cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [encode]
> not.gz = tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
> *.gz = gzip -d
> [decode]
> not.gz = tr [:upper:] [:lower:]
> *.gz = gzip
> EOF
$ echo "this is a test" | gzip > a.gz
$ echo "this is a test" > not.gz
$ hg add *
$ hg ci -m "test"
no changes
$ hg status
$ touch *
no changes
$ hg status
check contents in repo are encoded
$ hg debugdata a.gz 0
this is a test
$ hg debugdata not.gz 0
THIS IS A TEST
check committed content was decoded
$ gunzip < a.gz
this is a test
$ cat not.gz
this is a test
$ rm *
$ hg co -C
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
check decoding of our new working dir copy
$ gunzip < a.gz
this is a test
$ cat not.gz
this is a test
check hg cat operation
$ hg cat a.gz
this is a test
$ hg cat --decode a.gz | gunzip
this is a test
$ mkdir subdir
$ cd subdir
$ hg -R .. cat ../a.gz
this is a test
$ hg -R .. cat --decode ../a.gz | gunzip
this is a test
$ cd ..