[PATCH] 306394 fix (warning, not error, on non-existent file)

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:44 -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:


> ### Try 'bzr status NONEXISTENT ...others..:
> 
> removed:
>   FILE_E
> modified:
>   FILE_B
>   FILE_C
> nonexistent:
>   NONEXISTENT

I have to say, that I think this is not very visible to users. Users of
the UI have a tendancy to not-read-the-details.

I don't think this is a good idea overall, because it is less consistent
with commit; perhaps commit should change as well? However, as I rarely
issue specific paths when invoking status, I won't be personally
inconvenienced, at least until we start dealing with support requests
from people confused by it :).

I would request that:
 - status exit with error in this case
 - it be made _much_ more visible.

After all, 'bzr st /missing/path' errors clearly and cleanly, and this
can be thought of as just another case of a missing path :P.

-Rob
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