diff --git a/src/GitVersionCore/GitPreparer.cs b/src/GitVersionCore/GitPreparer.cs
index a26d228fab..e130e8ccd6 100644
--- a/src/GitVersionCore/GitPreparer.cs
+++ b/src/GitVersionCore/GitPreparer.cs
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static void CloneRepository(string repositoryUrl, string gitDirectory, Authentic
                     throw new Exception("Not found: The repository was not found");
                 }
 
-                throw new Exception("There was an unknown problem with the Git repository you provided");
+                throw new Exception("There was an unknown problem with the Git repository you provided", ex);
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/GitVersionCore/GitVersionFinder.cs b/src/GitVersionCore/GitVersionFinder.cs
index 1b68633262..926a421933 100644
--- a/src/GitVersionCore/GitVersionFinder.cs
+++ b/src/GitVersionCore/GitVersionFinder.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ public SemanticVersion FindVersion(GitVersionContext context)
             var filePath = Path.Combine(context.Repository.GetRepositoryDirectory(), "NextVersion.txt");
             if (File.Exists(filePath))
             {
-                throw new WarningException("NextVersion.txt has been depreciated. See http://gitversion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration/ for replacement");
+                throw new WarningException("NextVersion.txt has been deprecated. See http://gitversion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration/ for replacement");
             }
 
             return new NextVersionCalculator().FindVersion(context);