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 * Started moving error messages to cli (#499, #502).
 
+* Improved documentation for `initial_split()` and friends (@laurabrianna, #519).
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 ## Bug fixes
 
 * `vfold_cv()` now utilizes the `breaks` argument correctly for repeated cross-validation (@ZWael, #471).