Error using 'hg log'

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Sean E. Russell <hg at ser1.net> wrote:
> Can someone provide a deciphering of the following error message, please?
>
>         $ hg log --follow foo.txt
>         abort: can only follow copies/renames for explicit file names
>
>  Thank you.

Admittedly misleading. It happens here if foo.txt does not exist in
the repo (not the working copy!). Is your foo.txt in the repo?
-parren