title: Mercurial: multiline commit message on the command line?
body: <p>How can I specify a multiline commit message for mercurial on the command line?</p>
  
  <pre><code>hg commit -m "* add foo\n* fix bar"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does not work.  The log shows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>changeset:   13:f2c6526e5911
  tag:         tip
  date:        Fri Jan 23 23:22:36 2009 +0100
  files:       foobar.cpp
  description:
      * add foo\n*fix bar
  </code></pre>