Suggested new feature for ci

[Keith Thompson]

The "-m" option of the "ci" command makes it difficult to specify
an empty log message.  A workaround I often use is
    ci -l filename < /dev/null

Note that "cvs commit" has a similar "-m" option, but the log message
is always given as a separate argument, not bundled with the option.
Just copying that behavior for ci would probably break too many
existing scripts.

One possible solution, though it's a bit ugly, might be to define
behavior for an argument consisting of just "-m" (which is currently
an error):

    -mmsg       Uses "msg" as the message.
    -m          Uses the following argument as the message.

So
    ci -m '' foo
would check in "foo" with an empty log message, and a non-empty message
could be given either as:
    ci -mmessage foo
or
    ci -m message foo

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