api docs: document BUG() in api-error-handling.txt
When the BUG() function was added in d8193743e08 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12) these docs added in 1f23cfe0ef5 (doc: document error handling functions and conventions, 2014-12-03) were not updated. Let's do that. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Error reporting in git
======================
-`die`, `usage`, `error`, and `warning` report errors of various
-kinds.
+`BUG`, `die`, `usage`, `error`, and `warning` report errors of
+various kinds.
+
+- `BUG` is for failed internal assertions that should never happen,
+ i.e. a bug in git itself.
- `die` is for fatal application errors. It prints a message to
the user and exits with status 128.