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index 95b48a0..7dd897c 100644
--- a/chef/lib/chef/provider/subversion.rb
+++ b/chef/lib/chef/provider/subversion.rb
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ class Chef
           # YAML doesn't appreciate input like "svn: '/tmp/deploydir' is not a working copy\n"
           return nil
         end
-        raise "tried to run `#{command}' and got unexpected result #{result.inspect}" unless repo_attrs.kind_of?(Hash)
+        raise "Attempted to parse SVN info but could not. SVN info was:\n#{svn_info}" unless repo_attrs.kind_of?(Hash)
         rev = (repo_attrs['Last Changed Rev'] || repo_attrs['Revision']).to_s
         Chef::Log.debug "Resolved revision #{@new_resource.revision} to #{rev}"
         rev