Comment 1 for bug 50793

In the latest bzr.dev (at least by 1807), this has already been fixed for the diff and status commands. You now get:
$ bzr diff foo
bzr: ERROR: Path(s) are not versioned: foo
$ bzr status foo
bzr: ERROR: Path(s) do not exist: foo
$ touch foo
$ bzr status foo
unknown:
  foo

This is still broken for 'log', 'commit' and a few others, so I'll leave this bug open.
But it is better for a few things.

John