{"thread":{"id":"18914","subject":"Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)","startedAt":"2009-04-17T14:32:36Z","lastAt":"2009-04-17T15:11:08Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Kai Schlamp","Mikael Magnusson"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"111488","messageId":"49E89304.9060303@gmx.de","threadId":"18914","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)","fromName":"Kai Schlamp","fromEmail":"schlamp@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-04-17T14:32:36Z","receivedAt":"2009-04-17T14:32:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"schlamp@gmx.de","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3bf00f9e031db04407c8b6f74422fa820225c3576b6ee685736bfc9dff93669e?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hello.\n\nI know this had been discussed before\n(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language), \n\n\nbut in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet.\nWhen I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite\nconfusing. But the German terms used in git gui are even more confusing\n(I was even shocked when starting it the first time). People using git\ngenerally know what e.g. \"commit\" is. But the german translation\n(\"Eintragen\") seems to me a bad joke. I had to look at some screenshots\nof the english gui to find out what it is all about.\nI would suggest to keep the git idenfiers (like commit, push, pull,\n....) in foreign languages.\nAnd please have an option to choose the language of the complete gui.\nMost developers I know of like to use tools in english, even if that is\nnot their native language.\nAnother thing I miss a bit is an option to select old commit messages\n(like the TortoiseHg client of the Mercurial project has).\nAnd a last one. It would be nice to have a menu item to add all\nuntracked files at once. I had to add my own \"Tool\" for that.\nBut apart from that (to not only nag ;-)), git gui is quite comfortable.\n\nFine regards,\nKai\n"},{"id":"111490","messageId":"gsa4l4$sd0$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"18914","inReplyTo":"49E89304.9060303@gmx.de","subject":"Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)","fromName":"Kai Schlamp","fromEmail":"schlamp@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-04-17T14:44:45Z","receivedAt":"2009-04-17T14:44:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"schlamp@gmx.de","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3bf00f9e031db04407c8b6f74422fa820225c3576b6ee685736bfc9dff93669e?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Oh I forgot to say. I am using Git under Cygwin (not quite sure if \nLANG=en also under Linux changes the keyboard layout too).\n\nKai Schlamp schrieb:\n> Hello.\n> \n> I know this had been discussed before\n> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language), \n> \n> \n> but in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet.\n> When I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite\n> confusing. But the German terms used in git gui are even more confusing\n> (I was even shocked when starting it the first time). People using git\n> generally know what e.g. \"commit\" is. But the german translation\n> (\"Eintragen\") seems to me a bad joke. I had to look at some screenshots\n> of the english gui to find out what it is all about.\n> I would suggest to keep the git idenfiers (like commit, push, pull,\n> ....) in foreign languages.\n> And please have an option to choose the language of the complete gui.\n> Most developers I know of like to use tools in english, even if that is\n> not their native language.\n> Another thing I miss a bit is an option to select old commit messages\n> (like the TortoiseHg client of the Mercurial project has).\n> And a last one. It would be nice to have a menu item to add all\n> untracked files at once. I had to add my own \"Tool\" for that.\n> But apart from that (to not only nag ;-)), git gui is quite comfortable.\n> \n> Fine regards,\n> Kai\n> \n> \n"},{"id":"111489","messageId":"237967ef0904170747l61adf4feq1a5df5f1b26debe2@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18914","inReplyTo":"49E89304.9060303@gmx.de","subject":"Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)","fromName":"Mikael Magnusson","fromEmail":"mikachu@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-04-17T14:47:57Z","receivedAt":"2009-04-17T14:47:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mikachu@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"2009/4/17 Kai Schlamp <schlamp@gmx.de>:\n> Hello.\n>\n> I know this had been discussed before\n> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language),\n>\n> but in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet.\n> When I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite\n> confusing.\n\nI don't know much about language selection on windows (which you\ndidn't say you're using, but I'm inferring it from the referenced\nthread), but you could try setting LC_MESSAGES=en and LANG=de_DE or\nwhatever germany is, that should at least work in linux :). Maybe tk\nis nice enough to follow the same rules?\n\n-- \nMikael Magnusson\n"},{"id":"111492","messageId":"gsa66j$25c$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"18914","inReplyTo":"237967ef0904170747l61adf4feq1a5df5f1b26debe2@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)","fromName":"Kai Schlamp","fromEmail":"schlamp@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-04-17T15:11:08Z","receivedAt":"2009-04-17T15:11:08Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"schlamp@gmx.de","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3bf00f9e031db04407c8b6f74422fa820225c3576b6ee685736bfc9dff93669e?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"> I don't know much about language selection on windows (which you\n> didn't say you're using, but I'm inferring it from the referenced\n> thread), but you could try setting LC_MESSAGES=en and LANG=de_DE or\n> whatever germany is, that should at least work in linux :). Maybe tk\n> is nice enough to follow the same rules?\n> \n\nThanks Mikael. But it seems that it was more a problem with the Cygwin \nconsole. LANG=en works now too without changing the keyboard layout.\nBut your recommendation works also :-)\n\nCheers,\nKai\n"}]}