diff -r 9ab17e83bce3 -r 292e10b5831a mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Jun 12 19:35:41 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Jun 12 20:39:08 2005 -0800
@@ -446,6 +446,7 @@
     else:
         r = os.system(cmd)
         os.kill(child, signal.SIGTERM)
+        return r
 
 def rawcommit(ui, repo, files, **rc):
     "raw commit interface"