Make faidx error messages slightly more enlightening #1743
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This adds a small amount of extra information to errors when running
samtools faidx
, specifically it adds a helpful message when dealing with zero-length compressed data, which can occur eg: when downloading a file from the internet fails.before:
after:
which is a pretty big hint that something has gone wrong in your tool chain somewhere.
... and also line numbers to some of the other error messages to make it easier to track down the problematic lines.