From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:29:04 GMT Subject: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option Message-ID: <54801B50.4080500@web.de> In-Reply-To: <54801C39020000A1000182FA@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> On 12/04/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: > 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 )