From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:22:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: done the error messages
X-Git-Tag: debian/0.4_pre1~17
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b5c8f502e49ff9d32d8073f178bf30650b5448d

done the error messages
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e898a904..9c7ec942 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ dgit (0.4) experimental; urgency=low
   * Usage message.  Closes #720085.
   * Assorted manpage fixes.
   * Fail if a required config item is missing.
+  * Much better error messages.
 
  --
 
diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 31cfa5a8..c3fa7f31 100644
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -362,9 +362,6 @@ it for you, to make sure that the git history and archive contents are
 identical.  That this is necessary is a bug in the `3.0 (quilt)'
 format.
 
-The error messages are often unhelpfully terse and tend to refer to
-line numbers in dgit.
-
 The option parser requires values to be cuddled to the option name.
 
 dgit assumes knowledge of the archive layout.  There appears to be no