Antw: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option

From: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Dec 8, 2014, 07:20 UTC
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>>> Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> schrieb am 04.12.2014 um 20:02 in

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> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> 2014-12-04 8:32 GMT+01:00 Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>:
>> 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
> 
> What in particular makes the German git messages confusing you? What
> `git version` do you use?
> Maybe we can find something to improve in the translation.

The problem is (as others found out already) that all documentation I have use english Git messages, and lots of documentation is in English.

You could compare it to C++ (for example): If you read the language reference in English, you can only be confused by German compiler messages, and if you have a German book on C++, the phrases the book uses are quite likely not the ones the compiler uses...

Back to Git: Assuming (pure Science Fiction) that you participate in several projects using Git: One from a French maintainer expects that Git messages are in French, one Project uses English, another Project uses German... The a per-project locale setting would make sense (despite of the fact that I believe that every international project should use English for communication (just because it's a kind of "industry standard", not giving any personal preference).

Regards, Ulrich

> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf