From: Ulrich Windl Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:20:13 GMT Subject: Antw: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option Message-ID: <54855F3D020000A10001836C@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> In-Reply-To: >>> Ralf Thielow schrieb am 04.12.2014 um 20:02 in Nachricht : > Hi Ulrich, > > 2014-12-04 8:32 GMT+01:00 Ulrich Windl : >> 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