From a609a0e4701ca2111783a959db130a6c4ece7455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: telamonian <telamonian@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:48:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] clearer error msg on exceptions during
 `JupytextContentsManager.save`

- following the pattern from `FileContentsManager.save` in the `notebook` package
---
 .gitignore                  | 12 ++++++++++--
 jupytext/contentsmanager.py |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1ba731bef..17921bf29 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-.idea
-.vscode
 .build
 .cache
 .coverage
@@ -18,3 +16,13 @@ docs/_build
 
 # Will be created by postBuild
 demo/get_started.ipynb
+
+# jetbrains ide stuff
+*.iml
+.idea/
+
+# vscode ide stuff
+*.code-workspace
+.history
+.vscode/*
+!.vscode/*.template
diff --git a/jupytext/contentsmanager.py b/jupytext/contentsmanager.py
index d3d111817..c4b62b01b 100644
--- a/jupytext/contentsmanager.py
+++ b/jupytext/contentsmanager.py
@@ -162,8 +162,9 @@ def save_one_file(path, fmt):
 
                 return write_pair(path, jupytext_formats, save_one_file)
 
-            except Exception as err:
-                raise HTTPError(400, str(err))
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.log.error(u'Error while saving file: %s %s', path, e, exc_info=True)
+                raise HTTPError(500, u'Unexpected error while saving file: %s %s' % (path, e))
 
         def get(
             self,

From a007c6709a27da6ac33243b521722c5adbda466f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: telamonian <telamonian@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:21:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] bugfix: convert nb dict to nb Node before calling
 `jupytext.writes`

---
 jupytext/contentsmanager.py | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jupytext/contentsmanager.py b/jupytext/contentsmanager.py
index c4b62b01b..2c59921c9 100644
--- a/jupytext/contentsmanager.py
+++ b/jupytext/contentsmanager.py
@@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ def save_one_file(path, fmt):
                     text_model = dict(
                         type="file",
                         format="text",
-                        content=jupytext.writes(model["content"], fmt=fmt),
+                        content=jupytext.writes(
+                            nbformat.from_dict(model["content"]), fmt=fmt
+                        ),
                     )
 
                     return self.super.save(text_model, path)
@@ -163,8 +165,12 @@ def save_one_file(path, fmt):
                 return write_pair(path, jupytext_formats, save_one_file)
 
             except Exception as e:
-                self.log.error(u'Error while saving file: %s %s', path, e, exc_info=True)
-                raise HTTPError(500, u'Unexpected error while saving file: %s %s' % (path, e))
+                self.log.error(
+                    u"Error while saving file: %s %s", path, e, exc_info=True
+                )
+                raise HTTPError(
+                    500, u"Unexpected error while saving file: %s %s" % (path, e)
+                )
 
         def get(
             self,