From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:19:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commit
Message-ID: <7viprz8018.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110621162232.GI15461@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> +	if (res < 0)
>> +		die(_("%s failed"), me);
>> +	return 0;
>
> Should the "revert" or "cherry-pick" here be part of the message
> marked for translation?  A translator might want to paraphrase to
>
> 	fatal: failed to cherry-pick
>
> if that is more natural in the language at hand.

Wouldn't such a message file simply say

	msgid "%s failed"
        msgstr "failed to %s"

IOW, I am not sure what problem you are seeing.