update: don't translate the abort message twice The string representation of util.Abort() is translated when merge.update() raises the exception. For languages with characters out of the valid ascii range, if we feed them again to i18n.gettext() mercurial dies with: [...] File "/home/javi/src/mercurial/mercurial/hg-mpm/mercurial/commands.py", line 4287, in postincoming ui.warn(_("not updating: %s\n" % str(inst))) File "/home/javi/src/mercurial/mercurial/hg-mpm/mercurial/i18n.py", line 42, in gettext u = u'\n\n'.join([p and t.ugettext(p) or '' for p in paragraphs]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 404, in ugettext return unicode(message) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) To reproduce this error, just try to pull a changeset that crosses branches with LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8