On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Stefan Bellon <sbel...@sbellon.de> wrote:

> But why not just use some switch to indicate that the following
>
argument is a file/directory rather than a branch/tag/...?
>
>   fossil timeline -f README.txt



> This way the previous behaviour would be completely unaltered without
> any compatibility issues, but the new way is possible as well by just
> adding -f (or whatever) to the command. Alternatively one could
> introduce a new command "ftimeline", but I think a switch would be
> sufficient.
>

+1: no ambiguity problem and no unconventional file prefix.

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