Linus Torvalds writes: > So the rule is: if you don't give that "--", then we have to be able to > confirm that the filenames are really files. Not a misspelled revision > name, or a revision name that was correctly spelled, but for the wrong > project, because you were in the wrong subdirectory ;) OK, fair enough. In that case we need a better error message, so I don't get people complaining that gitk can't show the history of files that don't exist any more. How about something like: Argument "foo" is ambiguous - revision name or file/directory name? Please put "--" before the list of filenames. I'll hack up a patch to this effect. Paul. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html