diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/resources/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.properties b/org.eclipse.jgit/resources/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.properties
index 6d4a07799..9ec2c7d74 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/resources/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.properties
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/resources/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.properties
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ badEntryDelimiter=Bad entry delimiter
 badEntryName=Bad entry name: {0}
 badEscape=Bad escape: {0}
 badGroupHeader=Bad group header
+badIgnorePattern=Cannot parse .gitignore pattern ''{0}''
 badObjectType=Bad object type: {0}
 badRef=Bad ref: {0}: {1}
 badSectionEntry=Bad section entry: {0}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/FastIgnoreRule.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/FastIgnoreRule.java
index d7e4f79d2..8b35406e3 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/FastIgnoreRule.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/ignore/FastIgnoreRule.java
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.Strings.stripTrailing;
 import static org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.Strings.stripTrailingWhitespace;
 
+import java.text.MessageFormat;
+
 import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.InvalidPatternException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.ignore.internal.PathMatcher;
+import org.eclipse.jgit.internal.JGitText;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -96,7 +99,9 @@ public FastIgnoreRule(String pattern) {
 					Character.valueOf(PATH_SEPARATOR), dirOnly);
 		} catch (InvalidPatternException e) {
 			m = NO_MATCH;
-			LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+			LOG.error(MessageFormat.format(
+					JGitText.get().badIgnorePattern,
+					e.getPattern()), e);
 		}
 		this.matcher = m;
 	}
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.java
index af7d50aae..cf915afdc 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/JGitText.java
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ public static JGitText get() {
 	/***/ public String badEntryName;
 	/***/ public String badEscape;
 	/***/ public String badGroupHeader;
+	/***/ public String badIgnorePattern;
 	/***/ public String badObjectType;
 	/***/ public String badRef;
 	/***/ public String badSectionEntry;