diff -r 547d1a4aa105 -r bc3fe3b5b785 mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Fri Sep 08 02:16:16 2006 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Fri Sep 08 09:36:18 2006 +0200
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
             i += 1
         return ''.join(newname)
     except KeyError, inst:
-        raise util.Abort(_("invalid format spec '%%%s' in output file name"),
-                    inst.args[0])
+        raise util.Abort(_("invalid format spec '%%%s' in output file name") %
+                         inst.args[0])
 
 def make_file(repo, pat, node=None,
               total=None, seqno=None, revwidth=None, mode='wb', pathname=None):