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by ThomasWaldmann 1537 days ago
The "long and messy" python error messages are python tracebacks and often intentionally displayed by borg to ease locating and fixing bugs.

Of course we could also display shorter error messages (and we do that at some places, if the cause of the exception is well known / expected), but be glad to have the long form and not just "something went wrong" (which is very pretty, but completely useless). :-)