From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 00:02:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify error message for missing refs/remotes/dgit/dgit/<suite>.
X-Git-Tag: debian/0.17^0
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=631c9e09a7fd22a5847173978c3d1357c1db74ea

Clarify error message for missing refs/remotes/dgit/dgit/<suite>.
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9f31f38c..eab01a06 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ dgit (0.17) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * Do not grobble around in .git/refs/; instead, use git-show-ref.
     This avoids breaking when git makes packed refs.  Closes:728893.
+  * Clarify error message for missing refs/remotes/dgit/dgit/<suite>.
 
- --
+ -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:02:47 +0000
 
 dgit (0.16) unstable; urgency=high
 
diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 16bf56d9..207b5d09 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -745,9 +745,9 @@ sub fetch_from_archive () {
     print DEBUG "previous reference hash=$lastpush_hash\n";
     my $hash;
     if (defined $dsc_hash) {
-	fail "missing git history even though dsc has hash -".
-	    " could not find commit $dsc_hash".
-	    " (should be in ".access_giturl()."#".rrref().")"
+	fail "missing remote git history even though dsc has hash -".
+	    " could not find ref ".lrref().
+	    " (should have been fetched from ".access_giturl()."#".rrref().")"
 	    unless $lastpush_hash;
 	$hash = $dsc_hash;
 	ensure_we_have_orig();