I was bitten twice by:

% pijul record "Actually informative description"
Nothing to record

and then being utterly confused, especially since it tried to work around another bug!

If pijul had said:

File not found: "Actually informative description"
Nothing to record

I would have understood my oversight immediately!

Please make the tool as dumb-proof as possible (:

With --all, the error could be something like:

% pijul record -all "Actually informative description"
Conflicting options: --all and file "Actually informative description".

Fixed, thanks!