The message was not being extracted by xgettext, although it was marked for translation, seemingly because it contained a command substitution. Moreover, eval_gettext should be used instead of gettext for strings with substitution. See step 4. of section 15.5.2.1 Preparing Shell Scripts for Internationalization from gettext manual [1]: "Simplify translatable strings so that they don't contain command substitution ("`...`" or "$(...)") [...]" [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Preparing-Shell-Scripts Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@xxxxxxx> --- git-bisect.sh | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh index 5d1cb00..737bf05 100755 --- a/git-bisect.sh +++ b/git-bisect.sh @@ -277,8 +277,9 @@ bisect_state() { 0,*) die "$(gettext "Please call 'bisect_state' with at least one argument.")" ;; 1,"$TERM_BAD"|1,"$TERM_GOOD"|1,skip) - rev=$(git rev-parse --verify $(bisect_head)) || - die "$(gettext "Bad rev input: $(bisect_head)")" + bisected_head=$(bisect_head) + rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$bisected_head") || + die "$(eval_gettext "Bad rev input: \$bisected_head")" bisect_write "$state" "$rev" check_expected_revs "$rev" ;; 2,"$TERM_BAD"|*,"$TERM_GOOD"|*,skip) -- 2.7.3 -- 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