This is a human-readable message, and there's no reason it should not be translated. While we're at it, let's drop the period from the end, which is not our usual style. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- sha1_name.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 549ef3f..d4c7e26 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static int get_short_sha1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1, status = finish_object_disambiguation(&ds, sha1); if (!quietly && (status == SHORT_NAME_AMBIGUOUS)) - return error("short SHA1 %s is ambiguous.", ds.hex_pfx); + return error(_("short SHA1 %s is ambiguous"), ds.hex_pfx); return status; } -- 2.10.0.492.g14f803f