Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:
+ - Don't mark everything for translation, only strings which will be
+ read by humans (the porcelain interface) should be translated.
+
+ The output from Git's plumbing utilities will primarily be read by
+ programs and would break scripts under non-C locales. These strings
+ should not be translated.
Hmm, I had to re-read the above twice and then mentally annotate "would
break ... _if translated_" to make sense of the advice. Perhaps other
people are much less dense than me?