ep = strchr(ep + 1, '/');
        }
 
-       escaped = xml_entities(git_default_email);
+       escaped = xml_entities(ident_default_email());
        strbuf_addf(&out_buffer.buf, LOCK_REQUEST, escaped);
        free(escaped);
 
                                if (repo->path)
                                        url = repo->path;
                                if (strncmp(path, url, repo->path_len))
-                                       error("Parsed path '%s' does not match url: '%s'\n",
+                                       error("Parsed path '%s' does not match url: '%s'",
                                              path, url);
                                else {
                                        path += repo->path_len;
 {
        struct commit *head = lookup_commit_or_die(head_sha1, "HEAD");
        struct commit *branch = lookup_commit_or_die(remote->old_sha1, remote->name);
-       struct commit_list *merge_bases = get_merge_bases(head, branch, 1);
 
-       return (merge_bases && !merge_bases->next && merge_bases->item == branch);
+       return in_merge_bases(branch, head);
 }
 
 static int delete_remote_branch(const char *pattern, int force)
                run_active_slot(slot);
                free(url);
                if (results.curl_result != CURLE_OK)
-                       return error("DELETE request failed (%d/%ld)\n",
+                       return error("DELETE request failed (%d/%ld)",
                                     results.curl_result, results.http_code);
        } else {
                free(url);
        int new_refs;
        struct ref *ref, *local_refs;
 
+       git_setup_gettext();
+
        git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
 
        repo = xcalloc(sizeof(*repo), 1);