add friendly error message when the git python module can't be found

also hides the exception

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/builder/repository.py b/scripts/builder/repository.py
index 7a44e47..2d4a12b 100644
--- a/scripts/builder/repository.py
+++ b/scripts/builder/repository.py
@@ -6,25 +6,26 @@ def repositoryWithPath (path):
         try:
                 from mercurial import ui, hg
 
                 repo = hg.repository(ui.ui(), path)
                 result = HgRepository(repo, path)
         except:
                 try:
                         from git import Repo
                         repo = Repo(path)
                         result = GitRepository(repo, path)
                 except ImportError, exception:
                         print "Failed to import git, please install http://gitorious.org/git-python"
-                        raise exception
+                        print "Use sudo apt-get install python-git for Ubuntu/Debian"
+                        print "Use sudo yum install GitPython for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS"
                 except:
                         result = SnapshotRepository('', path)
 
 
         return result
 
 
 #===================================================================
 
 
 class Repository(object):