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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nmbug-status: Clarify errors for illegible configs\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
+\r
+> are not particularly clear. With this commit, we'll get output like:\r
+>\r
+> $ ./nmbug-status\r
+> fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/wking/.nmbug'\r
+> No local branch 'config' in /home/wking/.nmbug. Checkout a local\r
+> config branch or explicitly set --config.\r
+>\r
+> which is much more accessible. I've also added user-friendly messages\r
+\r
+pushed this one. The second patch touches the perl version of nmbug, so\r
+I'm guessing you rolled it into the python rewrite.\r
+\r
+d\r