diff -r 4a1187d3cb00 -r 7b19cda0fa10 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jul 01 01:05:24 2009 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jul 01 01:16:19 2009 -0500
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@
 
     node = cmdutil.commit(ui, repo, commitfunc, pats, opts)
     if not node:
+        ui.status(_("nothing changed\n"))
         return
     cl = repo.changelog
     rev = cl.rev(node)