Mercurial had "hg record" since 2007[1] and "hg crecord" since 2008[2]. Now you would use "hg commit -i".

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/RecordExtension?action=in...

[2] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CrecordExtension?action=i...