diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 71a2f8e..3ca1a4e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,81 +1 @@
-Entomologist is a distributed, collaborative, offline-first issue tracker,
-backed by git.
-
-
-# Quick start
-
-Entomologist provides a single executable called `ent` which performs
-all interaction with the issues database.  `ent --help` provides terse
-usage info.
-
-No initialization is needed, just start using `ent` inside your git repo:
-
-```
-$ git clone git@server:my-repo.git
-$ cd my-repo
-$ ent list
-# no issues shown, unless my-repo contained some already
-```
-
-Create an issue:
-```
-$ ent new
-# Starts your $EDITOR.  Type in the issue description, "git-commit
-# style" with a title line, optionally followed by an empty line and
-# free form text.
-```
-
-List issues with `ent list`.  Optionally takes a filter argument that
-controls which issues are shown, see `ent list --help` for details.
-For example, to show only new and backlog issues assigned to me or
-unassigned, run `ent list state=new,backlog:assignee=$(whoami),`.
-
-Show all details of an issue with `ent show`.
-
-Modify the state of an issue using `ent state`.  Supported states are New,
-Backlog, InProgress, Done, and WontDo.
-
-Assign an issue to a person using `ent assign`.  The person is just
-a free-form text field for now.  Make it a name, or an email address,
-or whatever you want.
-
-Add a comment on an issue with `ent comment`.
-
-Edit an issue or a comment with `ent edit`.
-
-Add or remove tags on an issue using `ent tag`.
-
-
-# Synchronization
-
-Synchronize your local issue database with the server using `ent sync`.
-This will:
-
-1. Fetch the remote issue database branch into your local repo.
-
-2. Show the list of local changes not yet on the remote.
-
-3. Show the list of remote changes not yet incorporated into the local
-   branch.
-
-4. Merge the branches.
-
-5. Push the result back to the remote.
-
-Step 4 might fail if (for example) both sides edited the same issue in
-a way that git can't merge automatically.  In this case, check out the
-`entomologist-data` branch, merge by hand and resolve the conflicts,
-and run `ent sync` again.
-
-
-# Git storage
-
-Issues are stored in a normal orphan branch in a git repo, next to but
-independent of whatever else is stored in the repo.  The default branch
-name is `entomologist-data`.
-
-Anyone who has a clone of the repo has the complete issue database.
-
-Anyone who has write-access to the repo can modify the issue database.
-The issue database branch can be modified by pull request, same as any
-other branch.
+This is a distributed, collaborative bug tracker, backed by git.
diff --git a/src/git.rs b/src/git.rs
index fe0446a..63cb004 100644
--- a/src/git.rs
+++ b/src/git.rs
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ pub fn sync(dir: &std::path::Path, remote: &str, branch: &str) -> Result<(), Git
     if !result.status.success() {
         println!(
             "Sync failed!  'git log' error!  Help, a human needs to fix the mess in {:?}",
-            branch
+            dir
         );
         println!("stdout: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stdout).unwrap());
         println!("stderr: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stderr).unwrap());
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ pub fn sync(dir: &std::path::Path, remote: &str, branch: &str) -> Result<(), Git
     if !result.status.success() {
         println!(
             "Sync failed!  'git log' error!  Help, a human needs to fix the mess in {:?}",
-            branch
+            dir
         );
         println!("stdout: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stdout).unwrap());
         println!("stderr: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stderr).unwrap());
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ pub fn sync(dir: &std::path::Path, remote: &str, branch: &str) -> Result<(), Git
     if !result.status.success() {
         println!(
             "Sync failed!  Merge error!  Help, a human needs to fix the mess in {:?}",
-            branch
+            dir
         );
         println!("stdout: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stdout).unwrap());
         println!("stderr: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stderr).unwrap());
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ pub fn sync(dir: &std::path::Path, remote: &str, branch: &str) -> Result<(), Git
     if !result.status.success() {
         println!(
             "Sync failed!  Push error!  Help, a human needs to fix the mess in {:?}",
-            branch
+            dir
         );
         println!("stdout: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stdout).unwrap());
         println!("stderr: {}", std::str::from_utf8(&result.stderr).unwrap());