From: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:51:10 GMT
Subject: Antw: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option
Message-ID: <548090FE020000A100018323@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <54801B50.4080500@web.de>

>>> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> schrieb am 04.12.2014 um 09:29 in
Nachricht <54801B50.4080500@web.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 )

That way no program ever needs configuration files ;-)