diff -r 93609576244e -r 1a14608bdeff mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Tue Aug 19 18:07:26 2008 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Sat Mar 29 23:05:45 2008 +0100
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@
                 if text:
                     edittext.append(text)
                 edittext.append("")
+                edittext.append("") # Empty line between message and comments.
                 edittext.append(_("HG: Enter commit message."
                                   "  Lines beginning with 'HG:' are removed."))
                 edittext.append("HG: --")