disable hg qfinish without changeset message

Question

I use mercurial queues and sometimes I forget to set my message with a hg qrefresh -m ... and forget to check before I run hg qfinish and I get the message patch MyPatch finalized without changeset message. Is there any way I can make qfinish abort if there is no message?

The only way I found to fix this after I do that is to generate a patch, hg strip my last revision, reapply the patch and then commit with my message.

Answer 1

Use hg qimport -r tip to turn the last changeset (your finalized patch) in to a MQ patch again.

Answer 2

One way around this problem is to add -e to the default options for qrefresh and qnew, in your ~/.hgrc:

[defaults]
qrefresh = -e
qnew = -e

This way you can no longer forget to describe the patch.