diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index fe1c1e5bc..483008699 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
      are ERE elements not BRE (note that \? and \+ are not even part
      of BRE -- making them accessible from BRE is a GNU extension).
 
+ - Use Git's gettext wrappers in git-sh-i18n to make the user
+   interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in
+   po/README.
+
 For C programs:
 
  - We use tabs to indent, and interpret tabs as taking up to
@@ -144,6 +148,9 @@ For C programs:
  - When we pass <string, length> pair to functions, we should try to
    pass them in that order.
 
+ - Use Git's gettext wrappers to make the user interface
+   translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in po/README.
+
 Writing Documentation:
 
  Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bf0d97ef7..8120641a5 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -106,6 +106,18 @@ Issues of note:
 	  history graphically, and in git-gui.  If you don't want gitk or
 	  git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
 
+	- A gettext library is used by default for localizing Git. The
+	  primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris gettext
+	  implementation also works.
+
+	  We need a gettext.h on the system for C code, gettext.sh (or
+	  Solaris gettext(1)) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl
+	  programs.
+
+	  Set NO_GETTEXT to disable localization support and make Git only
+	  use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this
+	  automatically if it can't find libintl on the system.
+
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
    but depending on your specific installation, you may not
    have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 898278d58..9470a1034 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -43,6 +43,22 @@ all::
 # Define EXPATDIR=/foo/bar if your expat header and library files are in
 # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
 #
+# Define NO_GETTEXT if you don't want Git output to be translated.
+# A translated Git requires GNU libintl or another gettext implementation,
+# plus libintl-perl at runtime.
+#
+# Define HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H if you haven't set NO_GETTEXT and you can't
+# trust the langinfo.h's nl_langinfo(CODESET) function to return the
+# current character set. GNU and Solaris have a nl_langinfo(CODESET),
+# FreeBSD can use either, but MinGW and some others need to use
+# libcharset.h's locale_charset() instead.
+#
+# Define LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL if your gettext implementation doesn't
+# need -lintl when linking.
+#
+# Define NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS if your implementation of msgfmt
+# doesn't support GNU extensions like --check and --statistics
+#
 # Define HAVE_PATHS_H if you have paths.h and want to use the default PATH
 # it specifies.
 #
@@ -309,6 +325,7 @@ gitexecdir = libexec/git-core
 mergetoolsdir = $(gitexecdir)/mergetools
 sharedir = $(prefix)/share
 gitwebdir = $(sharedir)/gitweb
+localedir = $(sharedir)/locale
 template_dir = share/git-core/templates
 htmldir = share/doc/git-doc
 ETC_GITCONFIG = $(sysconfdir)/gitconfig
@@ -317,7 +334,7 @@ lib = lib
 # DESTDIR=
 pathsep = :
 
-export prefix bindir sharedir sysconfdir gitwebdir
+export prefix bindir sharedir sysconfdir gitwebdir localedir
 
 CC = gcc
 AR = ar
@@ -330,6 +347,7 @@ RPMBUILD = rpmbuild
 TCL_PATH = tclsh
 TCLTK_PATH = wish
 XGETTEXT = xgettext
+MSGFMT = msgfmt
 PTHREAD_LIBS = -lpthread
 PTHREAD_CFLAGS =
 GCOV = gcov
@@ -640,6 +658,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += environment.o
 LIB_OBJS += exec_cmd.o
 LIB_OBJS += fsck.o
 LIB_OBJS += gpg-interface.o
+LIB_OBJS += gettext.o
 LIB_OBJS += graph.o
 LIB_OBJS += grep.o
 LIB_OBJS += hash.o
@@ -836,12 +855,14 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
 	NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
 	NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
 	HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
+	LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL = YesPlease
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU/kFreeBSD)
 	NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
 	NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
 	HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
 	DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS = YesPlease
+	LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL = YesPlease
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_S),UnixWare)
 	CC = cc
@@ -908,6 +929,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),SunOS)
 	NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
 	NO_REGEX = YesPlease
 	NO_FNMATCH_CASEFOLD = YesPlease
+	NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS = YesPlease
 	ifeq ($(uname_R),5.6)
 		SOCKLEN_T = int
 		NO_HSTRERROR = YesPlease
@@ -1031,6 +1053,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU)
 	NO_STRLCPY=YesPlease
 	NO_MKSTEMPS = YesPlease
 	HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
+	LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL = YesPlease
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_S),IRIX)
 	NO_SETENV = YesPlease
@@ -1249,6 +1272,7 @@ ifneq (,$(wildcard ../THIS_IS_MSYSGIT))
 	EXTLIBS += /mingw/lib/libz.a
 	NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER = YesPlease
 	INTERNAL_QSORT = YesPlease
+	HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H = YesPlease
 else
 	NO_CURL = YesPlease
 endif
@@ -1437,6 +1461,11 @@ endif
 ifdef NEEDS_LIBGEN
 	EXTLIBS += -lgen
 endif
+ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+ifndef LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL
+	EXTLIBS += -lintl
+endif
+endif
 ifdef NEEDS_SOCKET
 	EXTLIBS += -lsocket
 endif
@@ -1479,9 +1508,11 @@ ifdef NO_SYMLINK_HEAD
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_SYMLINK_HEAD
 endif
 ifdef GETTEXT_POISON
-	LIB_OBJS += gettext.o
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DGETTEXT_POISON
 endif
+ifdef NO_GETTEXT
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_GETTEXT
+endif
 ifdef NO_STRCASESTR
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_STRCASESTR
 	COMPAT_OBJS += compat/strcasestr.o
@@ -1650,6 +1681,10 @@ ifdef HAVE_PATHS_H
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_PATHS_H
 endif
 
+ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
+endif
+
 ifdef DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DDIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS
 endif
@@ -1670,6 +1705,10 @@ ifdef GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT
 	export GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT
 endif
 
+ifndef NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS
+	MSGFMT += --check --statistics
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(TCLTK_PATH),)
 NO_TCLTK=NoThanks
 endif
@@ -1700,6 +1739,7 @@ ifndef V
 	QUIET_GEN      = @echo '   ' GEN $@;
 	QUIET_LNCP     = @echo '   ' LN/CP $@;
 	QUIET_XGETTEXT = @echo '   ' XGETTEXT $@;
+	QUIET_MSGFMT   = @echo '   ' MSGFMT $@;
 	QUIET_GCOV     = @echo '   ' GCOV $@;
 	QUIET_SP       = @echo '   ' SP $<;
 	QUIET_SUBDIR0  = +@subdir=
@@ -1726,6 +1766,7 @@ bindir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir))
 bindir_relative_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir_relative))
 mandir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(mandir))
 infodir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(infodir))
+localedir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(localedir))
 gitexecdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitexecdir))
 template_dir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(template_dir))
 htmldir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(htmldir))
@@ -1781,7 +1822,7 @@ ifndef NO_TCLTK
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)gitk-git $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) all
 endif
 ifndef NO_PERL
-	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)perl $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) PERL_PATH='$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' all
+	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)perl $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) PERL_PATH='$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' localedir='$(localedir_SQ)' all
 endif
 ifndef NO_PYTHON
 	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)git_remote_helpers $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) PYTHON_PATH='$(PYTHON_PATH_SQ)' prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' all
@@ -1831,6 +1872,7 @@ sed -e '1s|#!.*/sh|#!$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)|' \
     -e 's|@SHELL_PATH@|$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)|' \
     -e 's|@@DIFF@@|$(DIFF_SQ)|' \
     -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \
+    -e 's|@@LOCALEDIR@@|$(localedir_SQ)|g' \
     -e 's/@@NO_CURL@@/$(NO_CURL)/g' \
     -e $(BROKEN_PATH_FIX) \
     $@.sh >$@+
@@ -2083,6 +2125,9 @@ config.sp config.s config.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 attr.sp attr.s attr.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-DETC_GITATTRIBUTES='"$(ETC_GITATTRIBUTES_SQ)"'
 
+gettext.sp gettext.s gettext.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
+	-DGIT_LOCALE_PATH='"$(localedir_SQ)"'
+
 http.sp http.s http.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-DGIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT='"git/$(GIT_VERSION)"'
 
@@ -2156,17 +2201,37 @@ XGETTEXT_FLAGS = \
 XGETTEXT_FLAGS_C = $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS) --language=C \
 	--keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --keyword="Q_:1,2"
 XGETTEXT_FLAGS_SH = $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS) --language=Shell
+XGETTEXT_FLAGS_PERL = $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS) --keyword=__ --language=Perl
 LOCALIZED_C := $(C_OBJ:o=c)
 LOCALIZED_SH := $(SCRIPT_SH)
+LOCALIZED_PERL := $(SCRIPT_PERL)
+
+ifdef XGETTEXT_INCLUDE_TESTS
+LOCALIZED_C += t/t0200/test.c
+LOCALIZED_SH += t/t0200/test.sh
+LOCALIZED_PERL += t/t0200/test.perl
+endif
 
 po/git.pot: $(LOCALIZED_C)
 	$(QUIET_XGETTEXT)$(XGETTEXT) -o$@+ $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS_C) $(LOCALIZED_C)
 	$(QUIET_XGETTEXT)$(XGETTEXT) -o$@+ --join-existing $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS_SH) \
 		$(LOCALIZED_SH)
+	$(QUIET_XGETTEXT)$(XGETTEXT) -o$@+ --join-existing $(XGETTEXT_FLAGS_PERL) \
+		$(LOCALIZED_PERL)
 	mv $@+ $@
 
 pot: po/git.pot
 
+POFILES := $(wildcard po/*.po)
+MOFILES := $(patsubst po/%.po,po/build/locale/%/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo,$(POFILES))
+
+ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+all:: $(MOFILES)
+endif
+
+po/build/locale/%/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo: po/%.po
+	$(QUIET_MSGFMT)mkdir -p $(dir $@) && $(MSGFMT) -o $@ $<
+
 FIND_SOURCE_FILES = ( git ls-files '*.[hcS]' 2>/dev/null || \
 			$(FIND) . \( -name .git -type d -prune \) \
 				-o \( -name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print \) )
@@ -2185,7 +2250,8 @@ cscope:
 
 ### Detect prefix changes
 TRACK_CFLAGS = $(CC):$(subst ','\'',$(ALL_CFLAGS)):\
-             $(bindir_SQ):$(gitexecdir_SQ):$(template_dir_SQ):$(prefix_SQ)
+             $(bindir_SQ):$(gitexecdir_SQ):$(template_dir_SQ):$(prefix_SQ):\
+             $(localedir_SQ)
 
 GIT-CFLAGS: FORCE
 	@FLAGS='$(TRACK_CFLAGS)'; \
@@ -2222,6 +2288,7 @@ endif
 ifdef GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT
 	@echo GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT=YesPlease >>$@
 endif
+	@echo NO_GETTEXT=\''$(subst ','\'',$(subst ','\'',$(NO_GETTEXT)))'\' >>$@
 	@echo GETTEXT_POISON=\''$(subst ','\'',$(subst ','\'',$(GETTEXT_POISON)))'\' >>$@
 	@echo NO_UNIX_SOCKETS=\''$(subst ','\'',$(subst ','\'',$(NO_UNIX_SOCKETS)))'\' >>$@
 
@@ -2338,6 +2405,11 @@ install: all
 	$(MAKE) -C templates DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(mergetools_instdir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -m 644 mergetools/* '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(mergetools_instdir_SQ)'
+ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(localedir_SQ)'
+	(cd po/build/locale && $(TAR) cf - .) | \
+	(cd '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(localedir_SQ)' && umask 022 && $(TAR) xof -)
+endif
 ifndef NO_PERL
 	$(MAKE) -C perl prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
 	$(MAKE) -C gitweb install
@@ -2474,6 +2546,7 @@ clean:
 	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
 	$(RM) -r bin-wrappers
 	$(RM) -r $(dep_dirs)
+	$(RM) -r po/build/
 	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
 	$(RM) -r autom4te.cache
 	$(RM) config.log config.mak.autogen config.mak.append config.status config.cache
diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in
index ab371012a..10698c829 100644
--- a/config.mak.in
+++ b/config.mak.in
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ NO_CURL=@NO_CURL@
 NO_EXPAT=@NO_EXPAT@
 NO_LIBGEN_H=@NO_LIBGEN_H@
 HAVE_PATHS_H=@HAVE_PATHS_H@
+HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=@HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H@
+NO_GETTEXT=@NO_GETTEXT@
+LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL=@LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL@
 NEEDS_LIBICONV=@NEEDS_LIBICONV@
 NEEDS_SOCKET=@NEEDS_SOCKET@
 NEEDS_RESOLV=@NEEDS_RESOLV@
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 048a1d497..630dbdd19 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -636,6 +636,12 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB([c], [basename],
 AC_SUBST(NEEDS_LIBGEN)
 test -n "$NEEDS_LIBGEN" && LIBS="$LIBS -lgen"
 
+AC_CHECK_LIB([c], [gettext],
+[LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL=YesPlease],
+[LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL=])
+AC_SUBST(LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL)
+test -n "$LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL" || LIBS="$LIBS -lintl"
+
 ## Checks for header files.
 AC_MSG_NOTICE([CHECKS for header files])
 #
@@ -818,6 +824,19 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADER([paths.h],
 [HAVE_PATHS_H=])
 AC_SUBST(HAVE_PATHS_H)
 #
+# Define NO_GETTEXT if you don't want Git output to be translated.
+# A translated Git requires GNU libintl or another gettext implementation
+AC_CHECK_HEADER([libintl.h],
+[NO_GETTEXT=],
+[NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease])
+AC_SUBST(NO_GETTEXT)
+#
+# Define HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H if have libcharset.h
+AC_CHECK_HEADER([libcharset.h],
+[HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=YesPlease],
+[HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=])
+AC_SUBST(HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H)
+#
 # Define NO_STRCASESTR if you don't have strcasestr.
 GIT_CHECK_FUNC(strcasestr,
 [NO_STRCASESTR=],
diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index fa283003e..15ce918a2 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -1099,6 +1099,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	struct credentials *cred = NULL;
 	int i;
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index 350b2e9e1..4b9c4b73a 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -3305,6 +3305,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
 		usage(fast_import_usage);
 
diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c
index ae5394a49..f75bca7f5 100644
--- a/gettext.c
+++ b/gettext.c
@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
 #include "git-compat-util.h"
 #include "gettext.h"
 
+#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+#	include <locale.h>
+#	include <libintl.h>
+#	ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
+#		include <libcharset.h>
+#	else
+#		include <langinfo.h>
+#		define locale_charset() nl_langinfo(CODESET)
+#	endif
+#endif
+
+#ifdef GETTEXT_POISON
 int use_gettext_poison(void)
 {
 	static int poison_requested = -1;
@@ -12,3 +24,108 @@ int use_gettext_poison(void)
 		poison_requested = getenv("GIT_GETTEXT_POISON") ? 1 : 0;
 	return poison_requested;
 }
+#endif
+
+#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+static void init_gettext_charset(const char *domain)
+{
+	const char *charset;
+
+	/*
+	   This trick arranges for messages to be emitted in the user's
+	   requested encoding, but avoids setting LC_CTYPE from the
+	   environment for the whole program.
+
+	   This primarily done to avoid a bug in vsnprintf in the GNU C
+	   Library [1]. which triggered a "your vsnprintf is broken" error
+	   on Git's own repository when inspecting v0.99.6~1 under a UTF-8
+	   locale.
+
+	   That commit contains a ISO-8859-1 encoded author name, which
+	   the locale aware vsnprintf(3) won't interpolate in the format
+	   argument, due to mismatch between the data encoding and the
+	   locale.
+
+	   Even if it wasn't for that bug we wouldn't want to use LC_CTYPE at
+	   this point, because it'd require auditing all the code that uses C
+	   functions whose semantics are modified by LC_CTYPE.
+
+	   But only setting LC_MESSAGES as we do creates a problem, since
+	   we declare the encoding of our PO files[2] the gettext
+	   implementation will try to recode it to the user's locale, but
+	   without LC_CTYPE it'll emit something like this on 'git init'
+	   under the Icelandic locale:
+
+	       Bj? til t?ma Git lind ? /hlagh/.git/
+
+	   Gettext knows about the encoding of our PO file, but we haven't
+	   told it about the user's encoding, so all the non-US-ASCII
+	   characters get encoded to question marks.
+
+	   But we're in luck! We can set LC_CTYPE from the environment
+	   only while we call nl_langinfo and
+	   bind_textdomain_codeset. That suffices to tell gettext what
+	   encoding it should emit in, so it'll now say:
+
+	       Bjó til tóma Git lind í /hlagh/.git/
+
+	   And the equivalent ISO-8859-1 string will be emitted under a
+	   ISO-8859-1 locale.
+
+	   With this change way we get the advantages of setting LC_CTYPE
+	   (talk to the user in his language/encoding), without the major
+	   drawbacks (changed semantics for C functions we rely on).
+
+	   However foreign functions using other message catalogs that
+	   aren't using our neat trick will still have a problem, e.g. if
+	   we have to call perror(3):
+
+	   #include <stdio.h>
+	   #include <locale.h>
+	   #include <errno.h>
+
+	   int main(void)
+	   {
+		   setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
+		   setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
+		   errno = ENODEV;
+		   perror("test");
+		   return 0;
+	   }
+
+	   Running that will give you a message with question marks:
+
+	   $ LANGUAGE= LANG=de_DE.utf8 ./test
+	   test: Kein passendes Ger?t gefunden
+
+	   In the long term we should probably see about getting that
+	   vsnprintf bug in glibc fixed, and audit our code so it won't
+	   fall apart under a non-C locale.
+
+	   Then we could simply set LC_CTYPE from the environment, which would
+	   make things like the external perror(3) messages work.
+
+	   See t/t0203-gettext-setlocale-sanity.sh's "gettext.c" tests for
+	   regression tests.
+
+	   1. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
+	   2. E.g. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" in po/is.po
+	*/
+	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
+	charset = locale_charset();
+	bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, charset);
+	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
+}
+
+void git_setup_gettext(void)
+{
+	const char *podir = getenv("GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR");
+
+	if (!podir)
+		podir = GIT_LOCALE_PATH;
+	bindtextdomain("git", podir);
+	setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
+	init_gettext_charset("git");
+	textdomain("git");
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/gettext.h b/gettext.h
index 24d91824e..57ba8bb02 100644
--- a/gettext.h
+++ b/gettext.h
@@ -13,8 +13,29 @@
 #error "namespace conflict: '_' or 'Q_' is pre-defined?"
 #endif
 
+#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+#	include <libintl.h>
+#else
+#	ifdef gettext
+#		undef gettext
+#	endif
+#	define gettext(s) (s)
+#	ifdef ngettext
+#		undef ngettext
+#	endif
+#	define ngettext(s, p, n) ((n == 1) ? (s) : (p))
+#endif
+
 #define FORMAT_PRESERVING(n) __attribute__((format_arg(n)))
 
+#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
+extern void git_setup_gettext(void);
+#else
+static inline void git_setup_gettext(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef GETTEXT_POISON
 extern int use_gettext_poison(void);
 #else
@@ -23,7 +44,7 @@ extern int use_gettext_poison(void);
 
 static inline FORMAT_PRESERVING(1) const char *_(const char *msgid)
 {
-	return use_gettext_poison() ? "# GETTEXT POISON #" : msgid;
+	return use_gettext_poison() ? "# GETTEXT POISON #" : gettext(msgid);
 }
 
 static inline FORMAT_PRESERVING(1) FORMAT_PRESERVING(2)
@@ -31,7 +52,7 @@ const char *Q_(const char *msgid, const char *plu, unsigned long n)
 {
 	if (use_gettext_poison())
 		return "# GETTEXT POISON #";
-	return n == 1 ? msgid : plu;
+	return ngettext(msgid, plu, n);
 }
 
 /* Mark msgid for translation but do not translate it. */
diff --git a/git-sh-i18n.sh b/git-sh-i18n.sh
index e672366f0..b4575fb3a 100644
--- a/git-sh-i18n.sh
+++ b/git-sh-i18n.sh
@@ -2,47 +2,91 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
 #
-# This is a skeleton no-op implementation of gettext for Git. It'll be
-# replaced by something that uses gettext.sh in a future patch series.
+# This is Git's interface to gettext.sh. See po/README for usage
+# instructions.
+
+# Export the TEXTDOMAIN* data that we need for Git
+TEXTDOMAIN=git
+export TEXTDOMAIN
+if test -z "$GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR"
+then
+	TEXTDOMAINDIR="@@LOCALEDIR@@"
+else
+	TEXTDOMAINDIR="$GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR"
+fi
+export TEXTDOMAINDIR
 
 if test -z "$GIT_GETTEXT_POISON"
 then
-	gettext () {
-		printf "%s" "$1"
-	}
+	if test -z "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS" && type gettext.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
+	then
+		# This is GNU libintl's gettext.sh, we don't need to do anything
+		# else than setting up the environment and loading gettext.sh
+		GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=gnu
+		export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME
 
-	gettextln() {
-		printf "%s\n" "$1"
-	}
+		# Try to use libintl's gettext.sh, or fall back to English if we
+		# can't.
+		. gettext.sh
 
-	eval_gettext () {
-		printf "%s" "$1" | (
-			export PATH $(git sh-i18n--envsubst --variables "$1");
-			git sh-i18n--envsubst "$1"
-		)
-	}
+	elif test -z "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS" && test "$(gettext -h 2>&1)" = "-h"
+	then
+		# We don't have gettext.sh, but there's a gettext binary in our
+		# path. This is probably Solaris or something like it which has a
+		# gettext implementation that isn't GNU libintl.
+		GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=solaris
+		export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME
 
-	eval_gettextln () {
-		printf "%s\n" "$1" | (
-			export PATH $(git sh-i18n--envsubst --variables "$1");
-			git sh-i18n--envsubst "$1"
-		)
-	}
+		# Solaris has a gettext(1) but no eval_gettext(1)
+		eval_gettext () {
+			gettext "$1" | (
+				export PATH $(git sh-i18n--envsubst --variables "$1");
+				git sh-i18n--envsubst "$1"
+			)
+		}
+
+	else
+		# Since gettext.sh isn't available we'll have to define our own
+		# dummy pass-through functions.
+
+		# Tell our tests that we don't have the real gettext.sh
+		GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=fallthrough
+		export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME
+
+		gettext () {
+			printf "%s" "$1"
+		}
+
+		eval_gettext () {
+			printf "%s" "$1" | (
+				export PATH $(git sh-i18n--envsubst --variables "$1");
+				git sh-i18n--envsubst "$1"
+			)
+		}
+	fi
 else
+	# Emit garbage under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease. Unlike the C tests
+	# this relies on an environment variable
+
+	GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=poison
+	export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME
+
 	gettext () {
 		printf "%s" "# GETTEXT POISON #"
 	}
 
-	gettextln () {
-		printf "%s\n" "# GETTEXT POISON #"
-	}
-
 	eval_gettext () {
 		printf "%s" "# GETTEXT POISON #"
 	}
-
-	eval_gettextln () {
-		printf "%s\n" "# GETTEXT POISON #"
-	}
 fi
 
+# Git-specific wrapper functions
+gettextln () {
+	gettext "$1"
+	echo
+}
+
+eval_gettextln () {
+	eval_gettext "$1"
+	echo
+}
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 250f4483e..fb9029cbf 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -538,6 +538,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (!cmd)
 		cmd = "git-help";
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	/*
 	 * "git-xxxx" is the same as "git xxxx", but we obviously:
 	 *
diff --git a/http-backend.c b/http-backend.c
index 59ad7da60..869d51538 100644
--- a/http-backend.c
+++ b/http-backend.c
@@ -545,6 +545,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	char *cmd_arg = NULL;
 	int i;
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 	set_die_routine(die_webcgi);
 
diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index 94d47cbb2..ba3ea1067 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	int get_verbosely = 0;
 	int get_recover = 0;
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
 	while (arg < argc && argv[arg][0] == '-') {
diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
index cdfdd4f79..f22f7e43c 100644
--- a/http-push.c
+++ b/http-push.c
@@ -1748,6 +1748,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int new_refs;
 	struct ref *ref, *local_refs;
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
 	repo = xcalloc(sizeof(*repo), 1);
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index 80e0e8c05..91763d301 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -1538,6 +1538,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	if (argc != 1)
 		usage(imap_send_usage);
 
diff --git a/perl/Git/I18N.pm b/perl/Git/I18N.pm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..07597dcb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl/Git/I18N.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+package Git::I18N;
+use 5.008;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Exporter 'import';
+
+our @EXPORT = qw(__);
+our @EXPORT_OK = @EXPORT;
+
+sub __bootstrap_locale_messages {
+	our $TEXTDOMAIN = 'git';
+	our $TEXTDOMAINDIR = $ENV{GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR} || '++LOCALEDIR++';
+
+	require POSIX;
+	POSIX->import(qw(setlocale));
+	# Non-core prerequisite module
+	require Locale::Messages;
+	Locale::Messages->import(qw(:locale_h :libintl_h));
+
+	setlocale(LC_MESSAGES(), '');
+	setlocale(LC_CTYPE(), '');
+	textdomain($TEXTDOMAIN);
+	bindtextdomain($TEXTDOMAIN => $TEXTDOMAINDIR);
+
+	return;
+}
+
+BEGIN
+{
+	# Used by our test script to see if it should test fallbacks or
+	# not.
+	our $__HAS_LIBRARY = 1;
+
+	local $@;
+	eval {
+		__bootstrap_locale_messages();
+		*__ = \&Locale::Messages::gettext;
+		1;
+	} or do {
+		# Tell test.pl that we couldn't load the gettext library.
+		$Git::I18N::__HAS_LIBRARY = 0;
+
+		# Just a fall-through no-op
+		*__ = sub ($) { $_[0] };
+	};
+}
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Git::I18N - Perl interface to Git's Gettext localizations
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+	use Git::I18N;
+
+	print __("Welcome to Git!\n");
+
+	printf __("The following error occured: %s\n"), $error;
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+Git's internal Perl interface to gettext via L<Locale::Messages>. If
+L<Locale::Messages> can't be loaded (it's not a core module) we
+provide stub passthrough fallbacks.
+
+This is a distilled interface to gettext, see C<info '(gettext)Perl'>
+for the full interface. This module implements only a small part of
+it.
+
+=head1 FUNCTIONS
+
+=head2 __($)
+
+L<Locale::Messages>'s gettext function if all goes well, otherwise our
+passthrough fallback function.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+E<AElig>var ArnfjE<ouml>rE<eth> Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright 2010 E<AElig>var ArnfjE<ouml>rE<eth> Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
+
+=cut
diff --git a/perl/Makefile b/perl/Makefile
index a2ffb6402..b2977cd0b 100644
--- a/perl/Makefile
+++ b/perl/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ makfile:=perl.mak
 
 PERL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))
 prefix_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(prefix))
+localedir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(localedir))
 
 ifndef V
 	QUIET = @
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ $(makfile): ../GIT-CFLAGS Makefile
 	echo '	echo $(instdir_SQ)' >> $@
 else
 $(makfile): Makefile.PL ../GIT-CFLAGS
-	$(PERL_PATH) $< PREFIX='$(prefix_SQ)' INSTALL_BASE=''
+	$(PERL_PATH) $< PREFIX='$(prefix_SQ)' INSTALL_BASE='' --localedir='$(localedir_SQ)'
 endif
 
 # this is just added comfort for calling make directly in perl dir
diff --git a/perl/Makefile.PL b/perl/Makefile.PL
index 0b9deca2c..456d45bf4 100644
--- a/perl/Makefile.PL
+++ b/perl/Makefile.PL
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+# Sanity: die at first unknown option
+Getopt::Long::Configure qw/ pass_through /;
+
+GetOptions("localedir=s" => \my $localedir);
 
 sub MY::postamble {
 	return <<'MAKE_FRAG';
@@ -16,7 +24,10 @@ endif
 MAKE_FRAG
 }
 
-my %pm = ('Git.pm' => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Git.pm');
+my %pm = (
+	'Git.pm' => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Git.pm',
+	'Git/I18N.pm' => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Git/I18N.pm',
+);
 
 # We come with our own bundled Error.pm. It's not in the set of default
 # Perl modules so install it if it's not available on the system yet.
@@ -33,6 +44,7 @@ WriteMakefile(
 	NAME            => 'Git',
 	VERSION_FROM    => 'Git.pm',
 	PM		=> \%pm,
+	PM_FILTER	=> qq[\$(PERL) -pe "s<\\Q++LOCALEDIR++\\E><$localedir>"],
 	MAKEFILE	=> 'perl.mak',
 	INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR => '$(SITEPREFIX)/share/man/man3'
 );
diff --git a/po/.gitignore b/po/.gitignore
index a242a86e9..4caa631ff 100644
--- a/po/.gitignore
+++ b/po/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /git.pot
+/build
diff --git a/po/README b/po/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10b0ad2ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/README
@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+Core GIT Translations
+=====================
+
+This directory holds the translations for the core of Git. This
+document describes how to add to and maintain these translations, and
+how to mark source strings for translation.
+
+
+Generating a .pot file
+----------------------
+
+The po/git.pot file contains a message catalog extracted from Git's
+sources. You need to generate it to add new translations with
+msginit(1), or update existing ones with msgmerge(1).
+
+Since the file can be automatically generated it's not checked into
+git.git. To generate it do, at the top-level:
+
+    make pot
+
+
+Initializing a .po file
+-----------------------
+
+To add a new translation first generate git.pot (see above) and then
+in the po/ directory do:
+
+    msginit --locale=XX
+
+Where XX is your locale, e.g. "is", "de" or "pt_BR".
+
+Then edit the automatically generated copyright info in your new XX.po
+to be correct, e.g. for Icelandic:
+
+    @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+    -# Icelandic translations for PACKAGE package.
+    -# Copyright (C) 2010 THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+    -# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+    +# Icelandic translations for Git.
+    +# Copyright (C) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
+    +# This file is distributed under the same license as the Git package.
+     # Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>, 2010.
+
+And change references to PACKAGE VERSION in the PO Header Entry to
+just "Git":
+
+    perl -pi -e 's/(?<="Project-Id-Version: )PACKAGE VERSION/Git/' XX.po
+
+
+Updating a .po file
+-------------------
+
+If there's an existing *.po file for your language but you need to
+update the translation you first need to generate git.pot (see above)
+and then in the po/ directory do:
+
+    msgmerge --add-location --backup=off -U XX.po git.pot
+
+Where XX.po is the file you want to update.
+
+Testing your changes
+--------------------
+
+Before you submit your changes go back to the top-level and do:
+
+    make
+
+On systems with GNU gettext (i.e. not Solaris) this will compile your
+changed PO file with `msgfmt --check`, the --check option flags many
+common errors, e.g. missing printf format strings, or translated
+messages that deviate from the originals in whether they begin/end
+with a newline or not.
+
+
+Marking strings for translation
+-------------------------------
+
+Before strings can be translated they first have to be marked for
+translation.
+
+Git uses an internationalization interface that wraps the system's
+gettext library, so most of the advice in your gettext documentation
+(on GNU systems `info gettext` in a terminal) applies.
+
+General advice:
+
+ - 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 if it was
+   translated. Plumbing strings should not be translated, since
+   they're part of Git's API.
+
+ - Adjust the strings so that they're easy to translate. Most of the
+   advice in `info '(gettext)Preparing Strings'` applies here.
+
+ - If something is unclear or ambiguous you can use a "TRANSLATORS"
+   comment to tell the translators what to make of it. These will be
+   extracted by xgettext(1) and put in the po/*.po files, e.g. from
+   git-am.sh:
+
+       # TRANSLATORS: Make sure to include [y], [n], [e], [v] and [a]
+       # in your translation. The program will only accept English
+       # input at this point.
+       gettext "Apply? [y]es/[n]o/[e]dit/[v]iew patch/[a]ccept all "
+
+   Or in C, from builtin/revert.c:
+
+       /* TRANSLATORS: %s will be "revert" or "cherry-pick" */
+       die(_("%s: Unable to write new index file"), action_name(opts));
+
+We provide wrappers for C, Shell and Perl programs. Here's how they're
+used:
+
+C:
+
+ - Include builtin.h at the top, it'll pull in in gettext.h, which
+   defines the gettext interface. Consult with the list if you need to
+   use gettext.h directly.
+
+ - The C interface is a subset of the normal GNU gettext
+   interface. We currently export these functions:
+
+   - _()
+
+    Mark and translate a string. E.g.:
+
+        printf(_("HEAD is now at %s"), hex);
+
+   - Q_()
+
+    Mark and translate a plural string. E.g.:
+
+        printf(Q_("%d commit", "%d commits", number_of_commits));
+
+    This is just a wrapper for the ngettext() function.
+
+   - N_()
+
+    A no-op pass-through macro for marking strings inside static
+    initializations, e.g.:
+
+        static const char *reset_type_names[] = {
+            N_("mixed"), N_("soft"), N_("hard"), N_("merge"), N_("keep"), NULL
+        };
+
+    And then, later:
+
+        die(_("%s reset is not allowed in a bare repository"),
+               _(reset_type_names[reset_type]));
+
+    Here _() couldn't have statically determined what the translation
+    string will be, but since it was already marked for translation
+    with N_() the look-up in the message catalog will succeed.
+
+Shell:
+
+ - The Git gettext shell interface is just a wrapper for
+   gettext.sh. Import it right after git-sh-setup like this:
+
+       . git-sh-setup
+       . git-sh-i18n
+
+   And then use the gettext or eval_gettext functions:
+
+       # For constant interface messages:
+       gettext "A message for the user"; echo
+
+       # To interpolate variables:
+       details="oh noes"
+       eval_gettext "An error occured: \$details"; echo
+
+   In addition we have wrappers for messages that end with a trailing
+   newline. I.e. you could write the above as:
+
+       # For constant interface messages:
+       gettextln "A message for the user"
+
+       # To interpolate variables:
+       details="oh noes"
+       eval_gettextln "An error occured: \$details"
+
+   More documentation about the interface is available in the GNU info
+   page: `info '(gettext)sh'`. Looking at git-am.sh (the first shell
+   command to be translated) for examples is also useful:
+
+       git log --reverse -p --grep=i18n git-am.sh
+
+Perl:
+
+ - The Git::I18N module provides a limited subset of the
+   Locale::Messages functionality, e.g.:
+
+       use Git::I18N;
+       print __("Welcome to Git!\n");
+       printf __("The following error occured: %s\n"), $error;
+
+   Run `perldoc perl/Git/I18N.pm` for more info.
+
+
+Testing marked strings
+----------------------
+
+Even if you've correctly marked porcelain strings for translation
+something in the test suite might still depend on the US English
+version of the strings, e.g. to grep some error message or other
+output.
+
+To smoke out issues like these Git can be compiled with gettext poison
+support, at the top-level:
+
+    make GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
+
+That'll give you a git which emits gibberish on every call to
+gettext. It's obviously not meant to be installed, but you should run
+the test suite with it:
+
+    cd t && prove -j 9 ./t[0-9]*.sh
+
+If tests break with it you should inspect them manually and see if
+what you're translating is sane, i.e. that you're not translating
+plumbing output.
+
+If not you should replace calls to grep with test_i18ngrep, or
+test_cmp calls with test_i18ncmp. If that's not enough you can skip
+the whole test by making it depend on the C_LOCALE_OUTPUT
+prerequisite. See existing test files with this prerequisite for
+examples.
diff --git a/po/is.po b/po/is.po
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8692a8b5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/is.po
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# Icelandic translations for Git.
+# Copyright (C) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the Git package.
+# Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>, 2010.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: Git\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2010-09-20 14:44+0000\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2010-06-05 19:06 +0000\n"
+"Last-Translator: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>\n"
+"Language-Team: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>\n"
+"Language: is\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.c:5
+msgid "See 'git help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command."
+msgstr "Sjá 'git help SKIPUN' til að sjá hjálp fyrir tiltekna skipun."
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.c:10
+msgid "TEST: A C test string"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: C tilraunastrengur"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.c:13
+#, c-format
+msgid "TEST: A C test string %s"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: C tilraunastrengur %s"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.c:16
+#, c-format
+msgid "TEST: Hello World!"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: Halló Heimur!"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.c:19
+#, c-format
+msgid "TEST: Old English Runes"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: ᚻᛖ ᚳᚹᚫᚦ ᚦᚫᛏ ᚻᛖ ᛒᚢᛞᛖ ᚩᚾ ᚦᚫᛗ ᛚᚪᚾᛞᛖ ᚾᚩᚱᚦᚹᛖᚪᚱᛞᚢᛗ ᚹᛁᚦ ᚦᚪ ᚹᛖᛥᚫ"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.c:22
+#, c-format
+msgid "TEST: ‘single’ and “double” quotes"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: ‚einfaldar‘ og „tvöfaldar“ gæsalappir"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.sh:8
+msgid "TEST: A Shell test string"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: Skeljartilraunastrengur"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.sh:11
+#, sh-format
+msgid "TEST: A Shell test $variable"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: Skeljartilraunastrengur með breytunni $variable"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.perl:8
+msgid "TEST: A Perl test string"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: Perl tilraunastrengur"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+#: t/t0200/test.perl:11
+#, perl-format
+msgid "TEST: A Perl test variable %s"
+msgstr "TILRAUN: Perl tilraunastrengur með breytunni %s"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: The first '%s' is either "Reinitialized
+#. existing" or "Initialized empty", the second " shared" or
+#. "", and the last '%s%s' is the verbatim directory name.
+#: builtin/init-db.c:355
+#, c-format
+msgid "%s%s Git repository in %s%s\n"
+msgstr "%s%s Git lind í %s%s\n"
+
+#: builtin/init-db.c:356
+msgid "Reinitialized existing"
+msgstr "Endurgerði"
+
+#: builtin/init-db.c:356
+msgid "Initialized empty"
+msgstr "Bjó til tóma"
+
+#: builtin/init-db.c:357
+msgid " shared"
+msgstr " sameiginlega"
diff --git a/shell.c b/shell.c
index abb862246..84b237fef 100644
--- a/shell.c
+++ b/shell.c
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int devnull_fd;
 	int count;
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
 	/*
diff --git a/show-index.c b/show-index.c
index 63f9da532..5a9eed7fd 100644
--- a/show-index.c
+++ b/show-index.c
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	unsigned int version;
 	static unsigned int top_index[256];
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	if (argc != 1)
 		usage(show_index_usage);
 	if (fread(top_index, 2 * 4, 1, stdin) != 1)
diff --git a/t/lib-gettext.sh b/t/lib-gettext.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0f76f6cdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/lib-gettext.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+#
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR="$GIT_BUILD_DIR/po/build/locale"
+GIT_PO_PATH="$GIT_BUILD_DIR/po"
+export GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR GIT_PO_PATH
+
+. "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/git-sh-i18n
+
+if test_have_prereq GETTEXT && ! test_have_prereq GETTEXT_POISON
+then
+	# is_IS.UTF-8 on Solaris and FreeBSD, is_IS.utf8 on Debian
+	is_IS_locale=$(locale -a | sed -n '/^is_IS\.[uU][tT][fF]-*8$/{
+		p
+		q
+	}')
+	# is_IS.ISO8859-1 on Solaris and FreeBSD, is_IS.iso88591 on Debian
+	is_IS_iso_locale=$(locale -a | sed -n '/^is_IS\.[iI][sS][oO]8859-*1$/{
+		p
+		q
+	}')
+
+	# Export them as an environment variable so the t0202/test.pl Perl
+	# test can use it too
+	export is_IS_locale is_IS_iso_locale
+
+	if test -n "$is_IS_locale" &&
+		test $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME != "fallthrough"
+	then
+		# Some of the tests need the reference Icelandic locale
+		test_set_prereq GETTEXT_LOCALE
+
+		# Exporting for t0202/test.pl
+		GETTEXT_LOCALE=1
+		export GETTEXT_LOCALE
+		say "# lib-gettext: Found '$is_IS_locale' as an is_IS UTF-8 locale"
+	else
+		say "# lib-gettext: No is_IS UTF-8 locale available"
+	fi
+
+	if test -n "$is_IS_iso_locale" &&
+		test $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME != "fallthrough"
+	then
+		# Some of the tests need the reference Icelandic locale
+		test_set_prereq GETTEXT_ISO_LOCALE
+
+		say "# lib-gettext: Found '$is_IS_iso_locale' as an is_IS ISO-8859-1 locale"
+	else
+		say "# lib-gettext: No is_IS ISO-8859-1 locale available"
+	fi
+fi
diff --git a/t/t0200-gettext-basic.sh b/t/t0200-gettext-basic.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..8853d8afb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0200-gettext-basic.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+#
+
+test_description='Gettext support for Git'
+
+. ./lib-gettext.sh
+
+test_expect_success "sanity: \$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME is set (to $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME)" '
+    test -n "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'sanity: $TEXTDOMAIN is git' '
+    test $TEXTDOMAIN = "git"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'xgettext sanity: Perl _() strings are not extracted' '
+    ! grep "A Perl string xgettext will not get" "$GIT_PO_PATH"/is.po
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'xgettext sanity: Comment extraction with --add-comments' '
+    grep "TRANSLATORS: This is a test" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t0200/* | wc -l >expect &&
+    grep "TRANSLATORS: This is a test" "$GIT_PO_PATH"/is.po  | wc -l >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'xgettext sanity: Comment extraction with --add-comments stops at statements' '
+    ! grep "This is a phony" "$GIT_PO_PATH"/is.po &&
+    ! grep "the above comment" "$GIT_PO_PATH"/is.po
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT 'sanity: $TEXTDOMAINDIR exists without NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease' '
+    test -d "$TEXTDOMAINDIR" &&
+    test "$TEXTDOMAINDIR" = "$GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR"
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT 'sanity: Icelandic locale was compiled' '
+    test -f "$TEXTDOMAINDIR/is/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo"
+'
+
+# TODO: When we have more locales, generalize this to test them
+# all. Maybe we'll need a dir->locale map for that.
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'sanity: gettext("") metadata is OK' '
+    # Return value may be non-zero
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "" >zero-expect &&
+    grep "Project-Id-Version: Git" zero-expect &&
+    grep "Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>" zero-expect &&
+    grep "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" zero-expect &&
+    grep "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" zero-expect
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'sanity: gettext(unknown) is passed through' '
+    printf "This is not a translation string"  >expect &&
+    gettext "This is not a translation string" >actual &&
+    eval_gettext "This is not a translation string" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+# xgettext from C
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'xgettext: C extraction of _() and N_() strings' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: C tilraunastrengur" >expect &&
+    printf "\n" >>expect &&
+    printf "Sjá '\''git help SKIPUN'\'' til að sjá hjálp fyrir tiltekna skipun." >>expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: A C test string" >actual &&
+    printf "\n" >>actual &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "See '\''git help COMMAND'\'' for more information on a specific command." >>actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'xgettext: C extraction with %s' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: C tilraunastrengur %%s" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: A C test string %s" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+# xgettext from Shell
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'xgettext: Shell extraction' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: Skeljartilraunastrengur" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: A Shell test string" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'xgettext: Shell extraction with $variable' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: Skeljartilraunastrengur með breytunni a var i able" >x-expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" variable="a var i able" eval_gettext "TEST: A Shell test \$variable" >x-actual &&
+    test_cmp x-expect x-actual
+'
+
+# xgettext from Perl
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'xgettext: Perl extraction' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: Perl tilraunastrengur" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: A Perl test string" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'xgettext: Perl extraction with %s' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: Perl tilraunastrengur með breytunni %%s" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: A Perl test variable %s" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'sanity: Some gettext("") data for real locale' '
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "" >real-locale &&
+    test -s real-locale
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t0200/test.c b/t/t0200/test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..584d45cf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0200/test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* This is a phony C program that's only here to test xgettext message extraction */
+
+const char help[] =
+	/* TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it. */
+	N_("See 'git help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.");
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	/* TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it. */
+	puts(_("TEST: A C test string"));
+
+	/* TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it. */
+	printf(_("TEST: A C test string %s"), "variable");
+
+	/* TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it. */
+	printf(_("TEST: Hello World!"));
+
+	/* TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it. */
+	printf(_("TEST: Old English Runes"));
+
+	/* TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it. */
+	printf(_("TEST: ‘single’ and “double” quotes"));
+}
diff --git a/t/t0200/test.perl b/t/t0200/test.perl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..36fba341b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0200/test.perl
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# This is a phony Perl program that's only here to test xgettext
+# message extraction
+
+# so the above comment won't be folded into the next one by xgettext
+1;
+
+# TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+print __("TEST: A Perl test string");
+
+# TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+printf __("TEST: A Perl test variable %s"), "moo";
+
+# TRANSLATORS: If you see this, Git has a bug
+print _"TEST: A Perl string xgettext will not get";
diff --git a/t/t0200/test.sh b/t/t0200/test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..022d607f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0200/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# This is a phony Shell program that's only here to test xgettext
+# message extraction
+
+# so the above comment won't be folded into the next one by xgettext
+echo
+
+# TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+gettext "TEST: A Shell test string"
+
+# TRANSLATORS: This is a test. You don't need to translate it.
+eval_gettext "TEST: A Shell test \$variable"
+
+# TRANSLATORS: If you see this, Git has a bug
+_("TEST: A Shell string xgettext won't get")
diff --git a/t/t0201-gettext-fallbacks.sh b/t/t0201-gettext-fallbacks.sh
index 54d98b9b1..52b1c27c2 100755
--- a/t/t0201-gettext-fallbacks.sh
+++ b/t/t0201-gettext-fallbacks.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,24 @@
 
 test_description='Gettext Shell fallbacks'
 
-. ./test-lib.sh
-. "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"/git-sh-i18n
+GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS=YesPlease
+export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS
+
+. ./lib-gettext.sh
+
+test_expect_success "sanity: \$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME is set (to $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME)" '
+    test -n "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'sanity: $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS is set' '
+    test -n "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS"
+'
+
+test_expect_success C_LOCALE_OUTPUT 'sanity: $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME" is fallthrough' '
+    echo fallthrough >expect &&
+    echo $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
 
 test_expect_success 'gettext: our gettext() fallback has pass-through semantics' '
     printf "test" >expect &&
diff --git a/t/t0202-gettext-perl.sh b/t/t0202-gettext-perl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..428ebb008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0202-gettext-perl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+#
+
+test_description='Perl gettext interface (Git::I18N)'
+
+. ./lib-gettext.sh
+
+if ! test_have_prereq PERL; then
+	skip_all='skipping perl interface tests, perl not available'
+	test_done
+fi
+
+"$PERL_PATH" -MTest::More -e 0 2>/dev/null || {
+	skip_all="Perl Test::More unavailable, skipping test"
+	test_done
+}
+
+# The external test will outputs its own plan
+test_external_has_tap=1
+
+test_external_without_stderr \
+    'Perl Git::I18N API' \
+    "$PERL_PATH" "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t0202/test.pl
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t0202/test.pl b/t/t0202/test.pl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c10cb469
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0202/test.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use 5.008;
+use lib (split(/:/, $ENV{GITPERLLIB}));
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use POSIX qw(:locale_h);
+use Test::More tests => 8;
+use Git::I18N;
+
+my $has_gettext_library = $Git::I18N::__HAS_LIBRARY;
+
+ok(1, "Testing Git::I18N with " .
+	 ($has_gettext_library
+	  ? (defined $Locale::Messages::VERSION
+		 ? "Locale::Messages version $Locale::Messages::VERSION"
+		 # Versions of Locale::Messages before 1.17 didn't have a
+		 # $VERSION variable.
+		 : "Locale::Messages version <1.17")
+	  : "NO Perl gettext library"));
+ok(1, "Git::I18N is located at $INC{'Git/I18N.pm'}");
+
+{
+	my $exports = @Git::I18N::EXPORT;
+	ok($exports, "sanity: Git::I18N has $exports export(s)");
+}
+is_deeply(\@Git::I18N::EXPORT, \@Git::I18N::EXPORT_OK, "sanity: Git::I18N exports everything by default");
+
+# prototypes
+{
+	# Add prototypes here when modifying the public interface to add
+	# more gettext wrapper functions.
+	my %prototypes = (qw(
+		__	$
+	));
+	while (my ($sub, $proto) = each %prototypes) {
+		is(prototype(\&{"Git::I18N::$sub"}), $proto, "sanity: $sub has a $proto prototype");
+	}
+}
+
+# Test basic passthrough in the C locale
+{
+	local $ENV{LANGUAGE} = 'C';
+	local $ENV{LC_ALL}   = 'C';
+	local $ENV{LANG}     = 'C';
+
+	my ($got, $expect) = (('TEST: A Perl test string') x 2);
+
+	is(__($got), $expect, "Passing a string through __() in the C locale works");
+}
+
+# Test a basic message on different locales
+SKIP: {
+	unless ($ENV{GETTEXT_LOCALE}) {
+		# Can't reliably test __() with a non-C locales because the
+		# required locales may not be installed on the system.
+		#
+		# We test for these anyway as part of the shell
+		# tests. Skipping these here will eliminate failures on odd
+		# platforms with incomplete locale data.
+
+		skip "GETTEXT_LOCALE must be set by lib-gettext.sh for exhaustive Git::I18N tests", 2;
+	}
+
+	# The is_IS UTF-8 locale passed from lib-gettext.sh
+	my $is_IS_locale = $ENV{is_IS_locale};
+
+	my $test = sub {
+		my ($got, $expect, $msg, $locale) = @_;
+		# Maybe this system doesn't have the locale we're trying to
+		# test.
+		my $locale_ok = setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
+		is(__($got), $expect, "$msg a gettext library + <$locale> locale <$got> turns into <$expect>");
+	};
+
+	my $env_C = sub {
+		$ENV{LANGUAGE} = 'C';
+		$ENV{LC_ALL}   = 'C';
+	};
+
+	my $env_is = sub {
+		$ENV{LANGUAGE} = 'is';
+		$ENV{LC_ALL}   = $is_IS_locale;
+	};
+
+	# Translation's the same as the original
+	my ($got, $expect) = (('TEST: A Perl test string') x 2);
+
+	if ($has_gettext_library) {
+		{
+			local %ENV; $env_C->();
+			$test->($got, $expect, "With", 'C');
+		}
+
+		{
+			my ($got, $expect) = ($got, 'TILRAUN: Perl tilraunastrengur');
+			local %ENV; $env_is->();
+			$test->($got, $expect, "With", $is_IS_locale);
+		}
+	} else {
+		{
+			local %ENV; $env_C->();
+			$test->($got, $expect, "Without", 'C');
+		}
+
+		{
+			local %ENV; $env_is->();
+			$test->($got, $expect, "Without", 'is');
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/t/t0203-gettext-setlocale-sanity.sh b/t/t0203-gettext-setlocale-sanity.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..a21246008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0203-gettext-setlocale-sanity.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+#
+
+test_description="The Git C functions aren't broken by setlocale(3)"
+
+. ./lib-gettext.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'git show a ISO-8859-1 commit under C locale' '
+	. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3901-8859-1.txt &&
+	test_commit "iso-c-commit" iso-under-c &&
+	git show >out 2>err &&
+	! test -s err &&
+	grep -q "iso-c-commit" out
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'git show a ISO-8859-1 commit under a UTF-8 locale' '
+	. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3901-8859-1.txt &&
+	test_commit "iso-utf8-commit" iso-under-utf8 &&
+	LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" git show >out 2>err &&
+	! test -s err &&
+	grep -q "iso-utf8-commit" out
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh b/t/t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..189af90c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+#
+
+test_description="Gettext reencoding of our *.po/*.mo files works"
+
+. ./lib-gettext.sh
+
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'gettext: Emitting UTF-8 from our UTF-8 *.mo files / Icelandic' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: Halló Heimur!" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: Hello World!" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'gettext: Emitting UTF-8 from our UTF-8 *.mo files / Runes' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: ᚻᛖ ᚳᚹᚫᚦ ᚦᚫᛏ ᚻᛖ ᛒᚢᛞᛖ ᚩᚾ ᚦᚫᛗ ᛚᚪᚾᛞᛖ ᚾᚩᚱᚦᚹᛖᚪᚱᛞᚢᛗ ᚹᛁᚦ ᚦᚪ ᚹᛖᛥᚫ" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: Old English Runes" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_ISO_LOCALE 'gettext: Emitting ISO-8859-1 from our UTF-8 *.mo files / Icelandic' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: Halló Heimur!" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_iso_locale" gettext "TEST: Hello World!" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_ISO_LOCALE 'gettext: Emitting ISO-8859-1 from our UTF-8 *.mo files / Runes' '
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_iso_locale" gettext "TEST: Old English Runes" >runes &&
+
+	if grep "^TEST: Old English Runes$" runes
+	then
+		say "Your system can not handle this complexity and returns the string as-is"
+	else
+		# Both Solaris and GNU libintl will return this stream of
+		# question marks, so it is s probably portable enough
+		printf "TILRAUN: ?? ???? ??? ?? ???? ?? ??? ????? ??????????? ??? ?? ????" >runes-expect &&
+		test_cmp runes-expect runes
+	fi
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'gettext: Fetching a UTF-8 msgid -> UTF-8' '
+    printf "TILRAUN: ‚einfaldar‘ og „tvöfaldar“ gæsalappir" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" gettext "TEST: ‘single’ and “double” quotes" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+# How these quotes get transliterated depends on the gettext implementation:
+#
+#   Debian:  ,einfaldar' og ,,tvöfaldar" [GNU libintl]
+#   FreeBSD: `einfaldar` og "tvöfaldar"  [GNU libintl]
+#   Solaris: ?einfaldar? og ?tvöfaldar?  [Solaris libintl]
+#
+# Just make sure the contents are transliterated, and don't use grep -q
+# so that these differences are emitted under --verbose for curious
+# eyes.
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_ISO_LOCALE 'gettext: Fetching a UTF-8 msgid -> ISO-8859-1' '
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_iso_locale" gettext "TEST: ‘single’ and “double” quotes" >actual &&
+    grep "einfaldar" actual &&
+    grep "$(echo tvöfaldar | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1)" actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_LOCALE 'gettext.c: git init UTF-8 -> UTF-8' '
+    printf "Bjó til tóma Git lind" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_locale" git init repo >actual &&
+    test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+    grep "^$(cat expect) " actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_ISO_LOCALE 'gettext.c: git init UTF-8 -> ISO-8859-1' '
+    printf "Bjó til tóma Git lind" >expect &&
+    LANGUAGE=is LC_ALL="$is_IS_iso_locale" git init repo >actual &&
+    test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+    grep "^$(cat expect | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1) " actual
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t0205-gettext-poison.sh b/t/t0205-gettext-poison.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..2361590d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t0205-gettext-poison.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
+#
+
+test_description='Gettext Shell poison'
+
+. ./lib-gettext.sh
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_POISON "sanity: \$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME is set (to $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME)" '
+    test -n "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME"
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_POISON 'sanity: $GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME" is poison' '
+    test "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME" = "poison"
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_POISON 'gettext: our gettext() fallback has poison semantics' '
+    printf "# GETTEXT POISON #" >expect &&
+    gettext "test" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual &&
+    printf "# GETTEXT POISON #" >expect &&
+    gettext "test more words" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success GETTEXT_POISON 'eval_gettext: our eval_gettext() fallback has poison semantics' '
+    printf "# GETTEXT POISON #" >expect &&
+    eval_gettext "test" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual &&
+    printf "# GETTEXT POISON #" >expect &&
+    eval_gettext "test more words" >actual &&
+    test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 160479b81..0e932dd97 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ export LANG LC_ALL PAGER TERM TZ
 EDITOR=:
 unset VISUAL
 unset EMAIL
+unset LANGUAGE
 unset $(perl -e '
 	my @env = keys %ENV;
 	my $ok = join("|", qw(
@@ -1118,12 +1119,14 @@ esac
 test -z "$NO_PERL" && test_set_prereq PERL
 test -z "$NO_PYTHON" && test_set_prereq PYTHON
 test -n "$USE_LIBPCRE" && test_set_prereq LIBPCRE
+test -z "$NO_GETTEXT" && test_set_prereq GETTEXT
 
 # Can we rely on git's output in the C locale?
 if test -n "$GETTEXT_POISON"
 then
 	GIT_GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
 	export GIT_GETTEXT_POISON
+	test_set_prereq GETTEXT_POISON
 else
 	test_set_prereq C_LOCALE_OUTPUT
 fi
diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c
index 470cffd7c..6f36f6255 100644
--- a/upload-pack.c
+++ b/upload-pack.c
@@ -784,6 +784,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int i;
 	int strict = 0;
 
+	git_setup_gettext();
+
 	packet_trace_identity("upload-pack");
 	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 	read_replace_refs = 0;
diff --git a/wrap-for-bin.sh b/wrap-for-bin.sh
index 09feb1f73..53a8dd0a3 100644
--- a/wrap-for-bin.sh
+++ b/wrap-for-bin.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ else
 	export GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
 fi
 GITPERLLIB='@@BUILD_DIR@@/perl/blib/lib'
+GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR='@@BUILD_DIR@@/po/build/locale'
 PATH='@@BUILD_DIR@@/bin-wrappers:'"$PATH"
-export GIT_EXEC_PATH GITPERLLIB PATH
+export GIT_EXEC_PATH GITPERLLIB PATH GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR
 
 exec "${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@" "$@"