docs: Clarify error on strategic merge failure

carlosonunez-redhat · carlosonunez-redhat · commit 2b9fa5ba4eca · 2025-10-21T11:38:55.000-05:00
Resolves #5997. Signed-off-by: Carlos Nunez <cnunez@redhat.com>
diff --git a/plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go b/plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ func (p *plugin) Config(h *resmap.PluginHelpers, c []byte) error {
 	}
 	if errSM != nil && errJson != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"unable to parse SM or JSON patch from %s", p.patchSource)
+			"unable to parse SM or JSON patch from %s; SM error: %s, JSON6902 error: %s",
+			p.patchSource,
+			errSM.Error(),
+			errJson.Error())
 	}
 	if errSM == nil {
 		p.smPatches = patchesSM

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ func (p plugin) Config(h resmap.PluginHelpers, c []byte) error {`
`68`	`68`	`}`
`69`	`69`	`if errSM != nil && errJson != nil {`
`70`	`70`	`return fmt.Errorf(`
`71`		`- "unable to parse SM or JSON patch from %s", p.patchSource)`
	`71`	`+ "unable to parse SM or JSON patch from %s; SM error: %s, JSON6902 error: %s",`
	`72`	`+ p.patchSource,`
	`73`	`+ errSM.Error(),`
	`74`	`+ errJson.Error())`
`72`	`75`	`}`
`73`	`76`	`if errSM == nil {`
`74`	`77`	`p.smPatches = patchesSM`