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Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option

From
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
Dec 4, 2014, 08:29 UTC
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<54801B50.4080500@web.de>
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On 12/04/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> I'm native German, but German git messages confuse me (yopu'll have to correlate them with the man pages). At the moment git uses the locale settings from the environment, so you can only change git's locale settings by changing the environment (like "LANG= git ...").
> OTOH Git has a flexible hierachical option setting mechanism. Why not allow a Git language (locale) setting system-wde, user-wide, or repository-specific.
>
> Regards,
> Ulrich

How about alias git='LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 git' in your ~/.profile ? (Of course you need to change de to the language you want )

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  1. Ulrich WindlDec 4, 2014
  2. Torsten BögershausenDec 4, 2014
  3. Jeff KingDec 4, 2014
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 4, 2014
  5. Michael J GruberDec 4, 2014
  6. Andreas SchwabDec 4, 2014
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 4, 2014
  8. Jeff KingDec 4, 2014
  9. Torsten BögershausenDec 5, 2014
  10. Ralf ThielowDec 6, 2014
  11. Antw: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git optionUlrich Windl, Dec 8, 2014
  12. David KastrupDec 8, 2014
  13. Antw: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git optionUlrich Windl, Dec 4, 2014
  14. Ralf ThielowDec 4, 2014
  15. Antw: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git optionUlrich Windl, Dec 8, 2014

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