Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> $dotest, or \$dotest? > > Works fine for me like this. Why do we escape the dollar in the other strings? The reason would become clear once you think what string you are feeding eval_gettext with if you do not escape. The translators translate a fixed string (possibly with placeholders) to a fixed translated string (possibly with placeholders). eval_gettext "Stray $dotest directory found. ..." would allow the shell to expand $dotest before eval_gettext sees it, which would mean the string is no longer a constant. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html