--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Oct 14 03:03:39 2016 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Oct 14 09:52:38 2016 +0200
@@ -1638,9 +1638,11 @@
 def _docommit(ui, repo, *pats, **opts):
     if opts.get('interactive'):
         opts.pop('interactive')
-        cmdutil.dorecord(ui, repo, commit, None, False,
-                        cmdutil.recordfilter, *pats, **opts)
-        return
+        ret = cmdutil.dorecord(ui, repo, commit, None, False,
+                               cmdutil.recordfilter, *pats, **opts)
+        # ret can be 0 (no changes to record) or the value returned by
+        # commit(), 1 if nothing changed or None on success.
+        return 1 if ret == 0 else ret
 
     if opts.get('subrepos'):
         if opts.get('amend'):