Merge branch 'ts/checkout-advice-plural'

* ts/checkout-advice-plural:
  checkout: call a single commit "it" intead of "them"

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 3e141fc149..4aad49aaa1 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -743,10 +743,17 @@ static void suggest_reattach(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *revs)
 
 	if (advice_detached_head)
 		fprintf(stderr,
-			_(
+			Q_(
+			/* The singular version */
+			"If you want to keep it by creating a new branch, "
+			"this may be a good time\nto do so with:\n\n"
+			" git branch <new-branch-name> %s\n\n",
+			/* The plural version */
 			"If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, "
 			"this may be a good time\nto do so with:\n\n"
-			" git branch <new-branch-name> %s\n\n"),
+			" git branch <new-branch-name> %s\n\n",
+			/* Give ngettext() the count */
+			lost),
 			find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
 }