On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:11:10AM +0000, Stefan Götz wrote: > > Any ideas on how to preserve the commit message? I thought bazaar > would do this itself somehow (similar to SVN storing messages of > failed commits in temporary files) but I did not find how. So maybe > this commit hook could do just that. This is highly annoying, the same already happens when a commit gets aborted for some other reason. The Bazaar people know about it, but choose not to do anything about it, witness: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/267017 That this bug is rated as low importance is almost an insult. I think you will have to find a way to work around it. Printing the log message to stdout should already do the trick though. Diego